Gani Adams, war general of the Yoruba people has lambasted Bola Tinubu.
He said…. “I clearly disagree with the former Governor of Lagos State. His statement about Funke Olakunrin’s killing is uncalled for and watery. He is someone I respect a lot and I do not wish to dabble into his issue. But the statement he gave in Akure was a slap on the entire Yoruba land. It is out of place for his person to make such a statement. It is a slap and it could make one think that he has a limited interest in the lives and property of the Yoruba”
” First of all, he was not at the scene of incident to have made such an unwarranted statement that the people that perpetrated the evil were not Fulani herdsmen. You went to greet the old man and the family had already said that they went to police station and it was revealed that the police on duty confirmed that the people that killed late Funke Olakunri were Fulani herdsmen, and you deemed it fit to say that they should not stigmatise Fulani herdsmen”
” How can anyone from Yoruba land say the Fulani herdsmen should not be stigmatized with their antecedents? He said it on Saturday in Pa Fasoranti’s House while another Fulani herdsman killed another Yoruba man in Odeda local government area of Oyo State. He should come out and say they were not Fulani herdsmen. Will political interest make you not to care about your people?”
” When there was crisis between the Fulani and Yoruba in Oyo State, despite his political ambition, President Muhammadu Buhari went to Oyo State when the late Lam Adesina was governor to mediate and request that his people (Fulani) should be protected. Yoruba never counted it against him, they did not consider the menace of herdsmen during election. They voted for him as President of Nigeria. Anything God has written about an individual will surely come to pass”
“You do not relegate your race because of political ambition. Many people have lost sympathy for him (Tinubu) based on that statement. People are angry with such statement. That statement now justified what Yinka Odumakin has been saying about him that he was in support of RUGA from inception. His statement is uncalled for and unfair to the old man”
. “Asiwaju Bola Tinubu should not be the mouthpiece of the government; he should be a very good Yoruba leader that should defend his race. Before you can be a good Nigerian, you must have been a good person within your own community. Charity begins at home”
You cannot be a good nationalist without having a good foundation and politics is about local interest. You don’t pay non-challant attitude to something that affects your locality. Also, Tinubu is not helping the President by trying to defend the wrong doings of the government. The President may not know that he is doing the wrong thing and he will be having the mindset that a prominent Yoruba elder statesman has spoken”
“You are not Lai Mohammed, the spokesman of government. You cannot be a friend of Fulanis more than late MKO Abiola. He was dining and wining with them. He was the one that settled the problem between Dasuki and Machido. He bought more than 1000 motorcycles for the people in Sokoto and more than 100 vehicles and gave them huge amount of money when General Ibrahim Babangida could not settle the fight in 1992.”
“Abiola was the friend of all the Emirs but what happened to him in 1993? People easily forget history. I am not saying he should not be a friend of the Fulani but not at the detriment of his people”