NIGERIA : Sunday Igboho Denies Ojudu, Calls Him A liar

Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has denied ever having anything to do with a Special Adviser on Political Matters to President Muhammadu Buhari, Senator Babafemi Ojudu.<br /><br />Ojudu, in a piece titled “The Sunday Igboho I knew” on his on his Facebook page on Monday, claimed that Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) chieftains hired Igboho to disrupt the 2009 Rerun Governorship Election in Ekiti State.<br /><br />However, while speaking with journalists during a press conference at his residence in Ibadan on Tuesday following a fire incident at one his buildings in the Soka area of the state, Igboho said he had no dealing with Ojudu, adding that all the President’s aide said were lies. <br /><br />He said: “I have been hearing reports about a man called Femi Ojudu. I don’t know this man. He said the late Chief (Lamidi) Adedibu contracted me in 2009 and we all know that Adedibu died in 2008.<br /><br />“I think the man should undergo a mental test because the late Chief Adedibu did not train me for any job and I was not close to the late Adedibu.<br /><br />“I have a relationship with my father, Senator Rasheed Ladoja, and I have never betrayed him in the years I was his follower.<br /><br />“I don’t know Femi Ojodu and I didn’t have any business with him. All what he said are lies.”<br /><br />Igboho denied politicians were bankrolled him to issue and enforce a vacation order to the herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo State.<br /><br />Igboho, who said he was moved by the sufferings of the people of the town, lamented that politicians have begun to politicise his intervention.<br /><br />The activist said: “Politicians are now politicising the herdsmen issue to tarnish my image so as to weaken me.<br /><br />“Any politician who knows he paid me money to do all that I am doing should come out openly before the whole world. I was not bankrolled by anyone. My paramount concern is for peace to reign in the land of my forefathers.”