Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has accused the federal government of plotting of to assassinate him.
Igboho made the accusation while recounting the ordeals he faced during the recent assault on his person by the operatives Department of State Services was an attempt to murder him.
Recall TheNewsGuru (TNG) reported how DSS, other security operatives attacked Igboho along Lagos – Ibadan Expressway.
Speaking in a radio interview with Rueben Abati, ‘City Talks with Reuben Abati’, Igboho said he keeps asking why the federal government is plotting to assassinate him for speaking for his people.
His words: “I had to pull off my cloth when one of the DSS operatives held onto my shirt violently.
“They started shooting when we began to drag the matter. The whole episode was an embarrassment for me. I am a responsible man, I am a Yoruba citizen, I am fighting for the rights of the Yoruba people. They don’t have to embarrass me.”
Continuing, the rights activist said, “I’m a businessman. I pay my tax to the Federal Government every month and I have evidence of tax payment. Should I be going on the road and some people attempt to kill me? For what? Why do that want to kill me because their plan on Friday was to assassinate me. Why?
“There is insecurity in the country. Fulani people are raping our people and killing our people in the forests but the security operatives are not going there to confront them. Instead, they are offered ransom. It is just sad that the government are threatening the common man living peacefully in the country. It should not be so.”