The appeal was contained in a statement issued yesterday in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The respected historian said he witnessed, on January 5, 2025, a video showing a Fulani leader, Prof. Garus Gololo, screaming a fierce message against Igboho.
He recognised Igboho as a prominent leader of the Yoruba self-determination struggle.
Akintoye said: “On January 5, 2025, I witnessed a video showing an important Fulani leader, Prof. Garus Gololo, screaming a fierce message against Chief Sunday Igboho, a prominent leader of the Yoruba self-determination struggle.
“Prof. Gololo was, like many other Fulani notables before him, striving might and mane to paint Sunday Igboho as a criminal whom the Federal Government should arrest and detain.
“Prof. Gololo’s attacks on Sunday Igboho were so harsh, and so lacking in truth that I have decided to make the truth available to him. I need to say that in putting this true information forward, I am not acting in any spirit of anger or malice. I just believe that every prominent citizen of Nigeria needs to have the truth as the basis of his public pronouncements, in the interest of us all.
“Prof. Gololo thinks that seeking self-determination for one’s nation is a crime. This highly educated compatriot of ours is grossly wrong in that view. Demanding self-determination for one’s nation is entirely in accordance with the provisions of international law and Nigerian law.”
The don maintained that his group is a peaceful, law-abiding, civilised and competent movement.
