Sunday Igboho Apologises for Calling Ooni ‘Fulani Slave’

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Pan-Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has apologised to the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, after he described the monarch as a “Fulani slave”.

According to Igboho, the Ooni had failed to tell President Muhammadu Buhari the truth about the plight of Yoruba people in the hands of Fulani herdsmen during a recent meeting in Abuja.

During a virtual town hall with Yorubas in the Diapora yesterday, Igboho had described the Ooni; national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; the Oyo governor, Seyi Makinde and Yoruba politicians in general, as “Fulani slaves”.

“Our leaders are lazy and slaves to Fulanis. They visit Abuja to collect money; we will attack them and destroy their property. Ooni should be dealt with. I am annoyed. Why should we be afraid of the crown they (Yoruba monarchs) wear? Tinubu and other Yoruba politicians are Fulani slaves,” Igboho reportedly said.

However, Igboho, in an interview with Isokan Omo Oodua TV, an online broadcast medium, begged for forgiveness from the monarch, whom he described as his father, claiming that he was caught in the moment.

“They said I insulted the Ooni of Ife. I and the monarch, as well as the Olugbon, have spoken on the phone. The Yoruba tradition doesn’t permit the insult of elders. But because I was pained by the issue, my tongue was caught up in the moment. I spoke according to how pained I was. It wasn’t the Ooni alone I directed my words at, I also did to other elders.

“It’s a case of father and child. I and the monarch have spoken as well as the Olugbon. I did not insult the Ooni. And if it appears as if I did, he should forgive me,” Igboho said.