A socio-cultural organisation, the Yoruba Welfare Group has advised freedom fighter, Sunday Igboho to stop attacking prominent Yoruba sons and daughters.
The group was reacting to Igboho’s recent verbal attack of the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor E..A Adeboye.
Igboho had in a live video interview refused to sympathise with Adeboye over the loss of his son but rather rained curses on prominent yoruba personalities like the cleric whom he alleged had not shown support for the agitation of the Yoruba Nation.
Reacting National President, Comrade Abdulhakeem Adegoke Alawuje, said: “When ants see no one to bite, they will begin to bite themselves, and if an ant sees no one to bite it will bite the ground.
“The truth is bitter but we cannot be looking at him to perish, because we love you. If a child is cutting a tree in the forest, it is the elders who have the capacity to know the direction of its fall.
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“If Igboho truly has a lofty aspiration towards the progress of Yorubas as claimed, then he must not make enemies of the same people he claims to be protecting.
“Why establishing enemity with the same people you seek to protect their interest.
“According to another saying, when people look at you with pity but you keep looking at yourself with smiling faces, then you are completely at a loss.
“When Sunday Igboho started his barrage of insults with the Ooni of ife, many kept quiet, when he did same to Oluwo of Iwo, we gave him a pat on the shoulder. When he picked on the Alake of Egba land, we also kept criminal silence. When he moved from the traditional rulers to political leaders, we kept encouraging him. Now it is the turn of religion leaders. Who knows whose turn is next”.
Alawuje added: “In the past we didn’t want to establish any issue against our fellow Yorubas but we have come to realise that if we keep maintaining silence, the embarrassment to the entire Yoruba race will keep increasing by the day.
“We seem to be empowering people from other ethnic groups to destroy us. Through our stupidity, these enemies of the Yoruba race hid under EndSARS protest to attack our traditional rulers. We all watched with disgrace how our traditional Institution was violated and rubbished during the protest. If we keep playing cheap politics without considering the interest of our traditional rulers, political leaders, and religion leaders, the enviable heritage of the Yoruba race will disappear in no distant period.”
