The Oyo State Police Command has denied reports that policemen attempted to arrest the popular Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, in Ibadan, the state capital.
EyewitnessMedia gathered this through Police Public Relations Officer, CPS Olugbenga Fadeyi, who in a terse statement he issued on Friday night, entitled: ‘Re-Arrest of Sunday Adeniyi Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho” denied the said action.
Fadeyi simply said: “Oyo State Police did not attempt to arrest him.”
In the same avein, the Department of State Service in statement by Public Relations Officer, National Headquarters, Abuja, Dr Peter Afunanya, described it as fake news.
“The Department of State Services wishes to refute the news that it attempted to arrest one Sunday Igboho, today, at Ibadan, Oyo State.
Reacting to the face-off between him and security agents around the Guru Maharaji bus stop along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Igboho advised the Federal Government to channel its energy towards arresting Boko Haram leader, Ibrahim Shekau, and Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, who has been holding meetings with bandits.
The Yoruba activist, who has been in the news for serving a quit notice on Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the South-West, said he was never invited before they attempted to arrest him.
When asked if he would honour a police invitation, Igboho said, “Go and ask them to invite Gumi and Shekau first before disturbing me. Let them face the bandits instead.”
Igboho also said he would not run, adding that he had returned to his base in Ibadan.
When asked if he would go into hiding, he said, “What for? I am in the neighbourhood. I cannot run.”
Igboho told this newspaper that his bank account was initially frozen but the restriction was lifted recently.
He said he had done nothing wrong but fight for the rights of his people.
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