Leader of Southwest local
security group, the Oodua People’s Congress, Gani Adams, who is also the Aareonakakanfo
of Yorubaland, and other members of the South-West Security Stakeholders Group
have condemned bandits apologist Sheikh Ahmad Gumi’s for his visitation to the
hometown of Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho.
Sunday Adeyemo who is popularly
known as Sunday Igboho is an indigene of Igboho town, the administrative headquarters
of the Oorelope Local Government Area of Oyo State.
The Kaduna State-based
controversial Islamic cleric was seen in a viral video on Tuesday in Igboho
town alongside his associate and former Chief Executive Officer of the National
Health Insurance Scheme, Prof Usman Yusuf.
The South-West Security
Stakeholders Group have swiftly reacted with an emergency meeting where they described
the pro-bandit cleric’s visit as “provocative”
They made this known in a statement
jointly signed by the convener of SSSG Gani Adams and the secretary, Alhaji
Owolabi Amusat, titled, ‘Insecurity: Stay away from South-West, S/West Security
Group warns bandits’.
The group condemned Sheikh Gumi’s
visit to Igboho town, describing it as an “attempt to mock and undermine the
efforts of the Yoruba activists and freedom fighters”.
They claimed that the Islamic
cleric’s body language, utterances in Igboho town “truly showed that he was
behind the DSS attack on Igboho’s Soka home, and that part of the Yoruba
territories have been conquered”.
“Gumi is a Nigerian, he has a
right to visit any part of the country but it shouldn’t be to the extent of
being deliberately attacking Igboho’s ideology in his hometown.
“Such an attempt is provocative
and can lead to a crisis. That was why it elicited various reactions. Gumi’s
ideas are always at variance with the present reality in the country and I
think it is better for him to desist from fanning the embers of discord in the
country and the southwest in particular,” part of the statement added.
The security stakeholders also
warned bandits and other “bad elements” to stay away from the South-West
region.
They claimed that that “there are
feelings that bandits have perfected their plans to strike in South-West.
The statement added, “On this
note, the southwest Security Stakeholders Group has considered it necessary to
beef up the security operations in our region, and we charged the police and
all other security outfits, across the region to remain vigilant in ensuring
that the region is safe. Any attempt to invade the southwest will bring about
both economic and political doom”
“SSSG is driven by the calls to
ensure effective security across the southwest. We are also keen on regionalism
where each region will control the security architecture of their respective
region. If Nigeria didn’t return to or go back to regionalism based on the true
Federalism that we have in the past, there may be a crisis and nobody should
blame those agitating for self-determination.
“But as a group, we will not
relent in the struggle to protect the South West and we are determined to
partner with the police and other security agencies to combat crime and make
the region safe for all and sundry.”
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