The Sarkin Fulani of Igangan community in Ibarapa North LGA of Oyo State, Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, says he shivers anytime the name of Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho is mentioned.
The octogenarian stated this in an interview with BBC Yoruba a few weeks after Igboho orchestrated his eviction from Igangan community in Ibarapa North local government area of Oyo State.
Abdulkadir had told journalists few days after the eviction that he lost N500 million worth of properties, most of which were burnt.
The Sarkin Fulani also claimed that Igboho and his boys killed some Fulani men, including his only brother, during the eviction exercise.
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In the BBC Yoruba interview, Abdulkadir said he was born in Ilorin, Kwara State and relocated alongside his father to Igangan in 1972.
He said that fortune has smiled on him since he relocated to Igangan.
“I got to Igangan in 1972. At the mention of Igboho’s name, I get scared and shiver.
“I am an indigene of Ilorin, my father and mother originated from Ilorin. I had come with my father to Ibarapa town. He was buried in Ibarapa.
“At the mention of Igboho’s name, I get scared and shiver, because what I experienced on the day he came with his group to my place at Igangan, since my childhood, I’d never seen such, so when I heard he was going to Ogun State, I couldn’t sleep.
“There’s no one that will hear the name of the most terrible person in the world and won’t be scared. You know what he did to me, to my property. My mother had only two children, me and my younger brother. Igboho killed my younger brother. Immediately Igboho arrived, we saw four corpses on the floor. Up till now, there are two corpses on the ground in Igangan that we can’t go to retrieve them.
“Someone over there saw their corpses and called to inform us, but we can’t go to Igangan. The person who called us, we told him to help us get people to go and carry the corpses but he was scared so he fled. Apart from my brother, the police evacuated four other corpses. How will I not get scared when I hear this name? It was God that saved me that day, I could have died,” Abdulkadir said.
He denied involvement in shady practices, saying he made his fortune from being into cattle rearing business for a long time.