We’re working on Igboho, FG should contain herdsmen’s menace- YCE

The Yoruba Council of Elders has said it was working behind the scene to ensure that the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka, Sunday Igboho, is released from the custody in Benin Republic.

The YCE also said the younger generation in Nigeria had become frustrated because the present state of the country did not give them any hope of the future.

The Secretary General of YCE, Dr. Kunle Olajide, said this after a meeting in Ibadan, Oyo State on Thursday.

Olajide said the YCE was not opposed to the reaction of the younger generation, but want them to be moderate in their reaction.

SO, whatsoever we can do, we are doing it behind the scenes to ensure the freedom of Sunday Igboho in Benin Republic”.

It reads partly, “The council views that the trend whereby the citizens will not be able to go about their normal business as totally unacceptable and should not continue.

“The menace, threat of Fulani herdsmen, bandits and kidnapper should be contained with a view of sanitizing the society. As far as Yoruba Council of Elders is concerned, we believe that Nigeria would be made workable and conducive for all, regardless of region or ethnicity.

“Under no circumstances should any Yoruba son, daughter, group of organization be victimized, hounded and prosecuted. The Yoruba council of elders is calling on all Yoruba sons, daughters, groups and organizations to close ranks and be united in the face of the present circumstances in Nigeria.

“The Yoruba Council of Elders, again, restates that the 1999 constitution is a quasi-dictatorial document imposed on Nigerians and that it is responsible for most of the current challenges.

“The council of elders is therefore, again, calling on the federal government to accommodate true federalism and a new constitution by the Nigerian people”.