Atiku’s aide seeks Igboho’s probe over kidnappers’ sponsors claim

Paul Ibe, a media adviser to former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has called on the Department of State Services and other security agencies to investigate Yoruba nation campaigner Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho. Ibe wants Igboho to disclose the identities of politicians he alleged are sponsoring kidnappers responsible for abductions in Oyo State.

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If I am permitted to burst into the hideouts, they will flee. They are neither gnomes nor mannequins; they are humans, so they can be dislodged. I know the politicians behind them, and if they do not stop perpetrating their evil acts, I will mention them all. I know them. The politicians behind them are the ones giving them ammunition and money.

Igboho made these claims during a meeting with the National Association of Nigerian Students, stating that kidnappers are not invincible and can be dislodged if decisive action is taken. He asserted that he knows the politicians providing ammunition and money to these criminal groups and threatened to name them if their "evil acts" continue. His remarks highlight growing fears about insecurity in the South-West region, particularly following the abduction of students and teachers in Oyo State.

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Since Sunday Ighoho claims to know those behind the abduction of students and teachers in Oriire, Oyo State, I think that the State Security Service and other security agencies need to invite him to release those names to them.

Reacting to Igboho's assertions, Ibe emphasized that security agencies should engage him immediately if he possesses credible information. "Every option should be on the table to fast-track the safe release of the school children and teachers," Ibe stated. He also broadened the discussion to Nigeria's wider insecurity challenges, questioning the Federal Government's response to the reported abduction of over 50 schoolchildren in Mussa, Borno State, on May 15. He contrasted the government's actions in the Oyo case with its perceived silence on the Borno incident, asking why vulnerable states like Borno do not receive similar attention or resources, such as forest guards.

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By the way, who knows those behind the abduction of over 50 school children in Mussa, Borno State, on May 15, 2026? Why is Tinubu and his government mute over the Borno abduction? Are those school children not Nigerians?