The house of a popular Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo well known as Sunday Igboho, was on Monday surrounded by Nigerian soldiers who attempted to arrest him.
This was separately reported by Olayomi Koiki the Media Aide to the Yoruba rights activist and Awikonko, a Yoruba poet. Both said there were sporadic shootings around the Soka, the Ibadan residence of Igboho, as some heavily armed gunmen in Nigerian army uniform stormed the area.
In a viral video shared on the Facebook, Koiki claimed that the residence was besieged by men of the Nigeria Army with the aim of arresting the activist.
It would be recalled that the security agents had in February allegedly attempted to arrest Igboho along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway but failed.
According to the viral video, Koiki said, “There is a situation right now where the Federal Government of Nigeria tried to invade our residence. We are telling the world that the war that the Federal Government is waiting for might start today.
“The war that the Federal Government think they are expecting from the Yoruba people; let’s tell the whole world. As I speak to you, there is an ongoing incident but we are more than capable.
According to Premium Times, gunshots could be heard intermittently in the background as Mr Koiki spoke. He claimed soldiers were doing the shooting but that the online newspaper could not independently confirmed the shooting.
The medium also claimed that It is also unclear at this time if soldiers indeed swooped on the property located in the Soka area of Ibadan.
Oyo state police spokesperson, Adewale Osifeso, did not respond to calls and text messages seeking to clarify Mr Igboho’s claim.
The known telephone number of Nigerian Army spokesperson, Mohammed Yerima, did not connect as this reporter dialled it multiple times Monday morning.
“By tomorrow morning, I am sure the government would come with false press statements, that it was a set of unknown soldiers, that was the same tactic they used to attack Fela’s mother. They equally used it during #EndSARS.
“They brought us a letter sometimes ago but we rejected them because the letter was what they used to kill Dele Giwa. We have chosen to be peaceful only for them to keep looking for our trouble which we won’t hesitate to give to them.” Koiki said.
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