Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho has discredited claims by Babafemi Ojudu the special adviser on political matters to President Muhammadu Buhari about meeting a former governor of Lagos Bola Tinubu in 2009.
In an article on Monday, Ojudu had claimed he set up a meeting between Tinubu and Sunday Igboho before the Ekiti rerun governorship election in May 2009 after learning that opposition politicians contracted Sunday Igboho to disrupt the election. He added that Tinubu talked the man out of it.
However, speaking with journalists on Tuesday after hoodlums set his house on fire in Soka, Oyo State, Sunday Igboho said Ojudu told lies in the article.
He said, “I have been hearing reports about a man called Femi Ojudu. I don’t know this man. He said the late Chief Adedibu contracted me in 2009 and we all know that Adedibu died in 2008. I think the man should be undergo a mental test because the late Chief Adedibu did not train me for any job and I was not close to the late Adedidu.
“I have a relationship with my father, Senator Rasheed Ladoja and I have never betrayed him in the years I was his follower.
“I don’t know Femi Ojodu and I didn’t have any business with him. All what he said are lies.”
Igboho said no politician bankrolled him to issue and enforce a vacation order to the Fulani herdsmen accused of perpetrating crimes in Igangan, Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State.
Igboho, who said he was moved by the sufferings of the people of the town, lamented that politicians have begun to politicise his intervention.
