Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly often known as Sunday Igboho, has urged President Bola Tinubu to name Vice President Kashim Shettima to order over his verbal assaults on the chief of the British Conservative Celebration, Kemi Badenoch.

Naija Information stories that Shettima had berated Badenoch for making important feedback on corruption in Nigeria.

In subsequent feedback, the British politician, who identifies as Yoruba, had additionally distanced herself from being grouped with Northern Nigeria.

Talking through a press release obtained in Osogbo on Sunday, Igboho urged Tinubu to intervene, noting that Badenoch had finished no mistaken in expressing her views on corruption within the nation.

“It’s incumbent on President Bola Tinubu, who can also be of Yoruba lineage, to direct Shettima to concentrate on his duties as vice chairman moderately than interact in a verbal warfare towards Badenoch. She merely expressed her candid and truthful opinion on the pervasive corruption in Nigeria’s system,” Igboho mentioned.

Drawing comparisons to the earlier administration, he added, “When Muhammadu Buhari was in energy, no person dared launch offensive or verbal assaults towards his Fulani ethnic group with out dealing with penalties.

“Due to my agitation towards the destruction of farmlands, killings, and sexual violence by Fulani herders throughout Buhari’s tenure, safety brokers, on his orders, stormed my residence on July 1, 2021, killing two folks and arresting 13 others.”

Igboho criticised the Federal Authorities for its failure to handle the challenges plaguing Nigerians, together with financial hardship, poverty, kidnapping, and insecurity.

As a substitute of specializing in these urgent points, he mentioned, Shettima had chosen to focus on Badenoch.

“Majority of Nigerians are experiencing harrowing poverty and insecurity, but the Federal Authorities stays misplaced find options. Moderately than deploying measures to alleviate the struggling of the plenty, the Vice President is busy directing his power towards Badenoch,” he said.

Igboho additional mentioned, “When has it turn into a sin for somebody to precise their opinion or state the plain about how corruption has stunted Nigeria’s progress?

“Badenoch, proclaiming her true identification as Yoruba, has dedicated no offence. The Vice President ought to consider his duties as an alternative of chasing shadows.”

He implored Tinubu to intervene and guarantee Shettima avoided pointless verbal assaults on Badenoch, urging him to prioritise the duties of his workplace.