The Pan Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere has denied claims by the federal government that Sunday Adeyemo the leader of the Yoruba nation agitator, has ties with major sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria.

The group in response to the allegations made by the Attorney General of the ​​Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami on Friday in Abuja as an attempt to destroy Adeyemo also known as Igboho.

At a press briefing on Friday in Abuja, Malami cited a presidential Committee report, indicting a federal lawmaker in the National Assembly as the sponsor of Igboho’s separatist activities.

The AGF who read the report, revealed that Igboho is the owner of Adesun International Concept Limited through which a total sum of N127,145,000 was received by Igboho from his financiers between 22nd October 2013 and 28th September, 2020″, according to the report.

“A total sum of N273,198,200 transaction outflow was recorded from Sunday Igboho’s account between 15th March, 2013 and 11th March, 2021.

“The report found connections of financial transaction between Adesun International Concept Ltd and some construction companies and businesses, among others,” he disclosed while addressing a press conference on Investigation Reports On Acts Of Terrorism And Allied Offences Perpetrated By Nnamdi Kanu And Report On the Sponsors And Financiers Of Sunday Igboho And Associates”.

He explained that Investigation revealed that Adesun International Concept Ltd transferred the sum of N12,750,000 to Abbal Bako & Sons, a company under investigation.

But Chief Sola Ebiseni the Secretary-General of Afenifere in a statement on Friday, punctured the allegations, describing it as a pathological hatred for Igboho and insult to the Yoruba nation will find a common bed for Yoruba nation agitation and Boko Haram which is known to act in tandem with the Fulani herdsmen whose terrorist acts were responsible for Igboho’s campaigns.

Ebiseni said: “The Federal Government with its Attorney General, will not stop amusing themselves with illogical reasoning on the nationality question.

“It is expected that the AG would be guided by the standard of a reasonable man, which is a central test in legal inquiry, before addressing the public.

“This time around, the team set up by him, at a time he is hell-bent on nailing Igboho, has satisfied his emotional expectations, but in a most unreasonable and tenuous manner, by suggesting that Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba nation campaigner, would be on the same sponsorship with Boko Haram.

“Only someone with pathological hatred for Igboho and insult to the Yoruba nation will find a common bed for Yoruba nation agitation and Boko Haram which is known to act in tandem with the Fulani herdsmen whose terrorist acts were responsible for Igboho’s campaigns.

“The whole world knows what Igboho stood and still stands for and his peaceful modus operandi, in spite of the unwarranted invasion of his house which was aimed at his life by the Federal Government.”

He said further that “it is of amusing cruelty that the Federal Government which was unable to defend itself of terrorism against Igboho and for which it was handed N20 billion in aggravated damages, would turn around that Igboho received less than N200 million to sponsor terrorism since 2013 when Igboho had never been heard of and when Major General Muhammad Buhari, as former Military Head of State then was campaigning for the Sharia as a law of general application in Nigeria.

“The Federal Government and its security agencies should better pay the damages awarded against them, apologise to Igboho and his household for the acts of terrorism committed against the peaceful campaigner.

“The Federal Government may continue to play the ostrich, the whole world knows those who enacted, engineered, and continue to promote terrorism in Nigeria”, he said.

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