Sunday Igboho denies turning into a cat during DSS raid
By Jeph Ajobaju, Chief Copy Editor
Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo, popularly called Sunday Igboho, has denied the legend he turned into a cat to escape from hit men sent by former Muhammadu Buhari to kill him at his home two years ago after which he fled to Benin Republic.
Igboho became an agitator after Fulani herdsmen began killing farmers and occupying their land in the South West without Buhari, a fellow Fulani, doing anything to stop them.
Instead, the Buhari government in July 2021 sent gunmen from the Department of State Security (DSS) to Igboho’s home in Ibadan; they could not find him and raided the place, killed his aides and some cats.
News spread at the time that Igboho, who once boasted of having fortified himself with “African protection”, turned into a cat and vanished when the hit men came.
Igboho was detained in Benin Republic at Buhari’s behest until he was released in October 2023 and subsequently went on to join his family in Germany.
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God is greater than Buhari, says Igboho
Igboho told The PUNCH in a recent interview he never turned into a cat but confirmed DSS officers fired bullets indiscriminately during the raid, leading to the deaths of several cats.
He said their mission was to kill or capture him alive.
His words: “It is true that some cats were killed during the attack. Because the DSS just kept firing bullets in all directions. I was rearing cats as pets, and I had many of them in my house. So, anything or movement attracted sporadic gunshots.
“Their mission was to either kill me or arrest me and take me to an unknown destination, but the Almighty God is greater than anybody in this world, including the despotic ex-President Muhammadu Buhari.
“My God and providence put Buhari to shame with the lawless invasion of my home because they all failed to achieve what they came for. I didn’t turn into a cat to escape.”
Igboho said he was not aware the DSS came to his house with three herbalists.
“I wouldn’t know that because the DSS stormed my residence at midnight, causing fear and commotion in the whole of the Soka area of Ibadan and releasing a volley of bullets for several hours.
“In that atmosphere of confusion and violence, how do you expect me to be checking if they came with herbalists or pastors? There couldn’t have been time for that.”
When asked to clarify the report of stockpiling guns in his house, Igboho said, “That’s very far from the truth. How can I stockpile guns in my house?
“All those allegations are phantoms and cooked up by the DSS just to implicate me in a planned or trumped-up criminal trial.”