BREAKING: Tension in Oyo as Gov Makinde orders Police to arrest Sunday Igboho over Fulani quit notice

Makinde declared that his government would not allow anyone hiding under the guise of protecting Yoruba interests to cause ethnic tension and perpetrate crisis.

Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has ordered the newly posted State Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, to arrest a Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemi, popularly known as Sunday Igboho and others for causing tension in the state and classified them as criminals.

Makinde stated this on Friday when Onadeko paid him a courtesy visit at the Governor’s Office, Agodi, Secretariat, Ibadan, the state capital.

Newsflash had earlier reported that Sunday Igboho, had arrived in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government Area of Oyo State, chased the Fulanis out of the town.

Our correspondent gathered that Igboho came to the town and was received by hundreds of youths at the Igangan Town Hall.

Igboho was addressing the youths and other supporters.

The activist had accused the Fulani of perpetrating murders and kidnappings.

Meanwhile, Makinde declared that his government would not allow anyone hiding under the guise of protecting Yoruba interests to cause ethnic tension and perpetrate crisis.

He maintained that the war Oyo and security agencies need to wage is not against any particular ethnic group but against criminal elements, irrespective of their tribes, religions, or creed.

The governor added that his administration would not allow anyone to threaten the peace of the state by acting unlawfully and saying things that are alien to the Nigerian constitution.

Makinde told the new Commissioner of Police, Ngozi Onadeko, that his administration would continue to synergise with law enforcement organs fight criminals, hoodlums and bandits irrespective of their tribe or religion.

“For people stoking ethnic tension, they are criminals and once you get them, they should be arrested and treated like common criminals.

“I am sure that since you came in, you must have heard about some things happening at Ibarapa axis of the state. I will still say it here that we are not after Hausa-Fulani. We are after criminals”, he said.

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