“If Sunday Igboho Is Alive?” – Netizen Asks as Yoruba Hero Goes Mute While Bandits Hold Pupils, Teachers Hostage
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The question echoing across Yorubaland today is as painful as it is provocative:
If Sunday Igboho is alive, where is his voice?
Not his body. Not his bullets. His voice.
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A viral post on X (formerly Twitter) by one Opeyemi Babalola has ripped open a wound many Yoruba people have been silently nursing. Babalola wrote:
“If Sunday Igboho were alive today, he would have mobilized his warriors and moved to the forest to rescue those teachers and pupils from the terrorists’ den! 💔”
The sarcasm is deliberate. The pain is real.
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Because Sunday Igboho is alive. He is eating. He is breathing. He is even seated at a table many believe is made of gold and padded with political immunity.
But the children? The teachers? The kidnapped souls of the Southwest?
They are in the forest. In terrorists’ dens. Waiting for a hero who no longer comes.
The Uncomfortable Truth: From Warrior to Mute
Let us tell the story as it is, without sugarcoating it.
When Sunday Igboho was a rebel, without a political platform, without a “seat at the table,” he moved like thunder. He mobilized his warriors. He stormed forests. He chased killer herdsmen. He made the Southwest feel safe for a brief, glorious moment.
He was wanted. He was hunted. He was a fugitive. But he was present.
Fast forward to today.
Sunday Igboho has reportedly joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), the same APC led by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu — a Yoruba man, by the way. A Yoruba president. A Yoruba commander-in-chief.
And what do we have?
- Kidnapped schoolchildren – screaming for help.
- Kidnapped teachers – begging for rescue.
- Terrorists – laughing and collecting ransoms.
- The Southwest – bleeding.
And Sunday Igboho? Mute.
The Bitter Question Opeyemi Babalola Raised
Babalola did not say Igboho is dead. He used sarcasm to express the truth:
“If Sunday Igboho were alive today…”
The implication is devastating: the Igboho many people knew — the warrior, the mobilizer, the forest stormer — is politically dead. He has been replaced by a man in a suit, sitting at a table, probably collecting benefits, while his people are being fed to terrorists.
And the worst part?
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is Yoruba.
The Inspector General of Police is Yoruba. (Debatable, but let’s proceed.)
The Service Chiefs? Yoruba representation exists.
So why are Yoruba children still in terrorist camps?
If the president is your kinsman, if you now belong to the ruling party, if you have a “seat at the table” — why are you not using that table to save your people?
Or has the table silenced you permanently?
The Public Reaction – Yoruba People Are Angry
Across social media, the sentiment is brutal:
- “Igboho sold out for a plate of porridge.”
- “He is waiting for Tinubu’s permission to fight. The same Tinubu who didn’t visit kidnapped victims in his own state.”
- “The lion is now a lamb. APC does that to warriors.”
Ejes Gist News gathered that many Yoruba youths who once hailed Igboho as a hero now refer to him as “Igboho the Mute.”
One user wrote:
“He used to run to the forest with charms and courage. Now he runs to Abuja for meetings. God help us.”
Another added:
“The same Tinubu who couldn’t rescue the Alo students in Kwara? That Tinubu? Igboho, you are on your own now.”
The Deeper Wound: What Happened to the Yoruba Warrior Spirit?
This is not just about Sunday Igboho.
This is about what political power does to warriors.
When you are outside the system, you fight. When you enter the system, the system tames you. You become careful. You become diplomatic. You become quiet.
But the terrorists did not become quiet.
They are still there. In the forests. In the mountains. Holding children hostage.
And while Igboho sits at his “table,” those children are counting days, crying for their mothers, and wondering if anyone is coming.
Ejes Gist News Demands Answers
So we ask directly, without fear or favour:
Sunday Igboho:
- Are you still alive?
- Are you still a warrior?
- Or did you trade your machete for a chair?
- If President Tinubu is your brother, why are your people still crying?
- If you have access to power, why are the terrorists still breathing?
And to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu:
- You are a Yoruba president.
- Your people are being kidnapped in your own geopolitical zone.
- Where is the federal might?
- Where is the rescue mission?
- Or are you waiting for Sunday Igboho to do your job for you?
Final Verdict – A Hero’s Silence Is a People’s Betrayal
Sunday Igboho is not dead. That is a fact.
But the hero who once made the Southwest proud — the man who stood alone against killers, the warrior who did not wait for Abuja before acting?
That man, according to many Nigerians, is dead. Killed not by bullets, but by political comfort.
As Opeyemi Babalola painfully reminded us:
“If Sunday Igboho were alive today, he would have mobilized his warriors and moved to the forest to rescue those teachers and pupils from the terrorists’ den!”
The fact that he has not? The fact that he is quiet?
That tells many people everything.
Yorubaland is bleeding. And her former warrior is dining.
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