* Sunday Dare
The Pathfinder
Wednesday February 18, 2026
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Sunday Dare, the Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Public Communication and Orientation, has firmly rejected suggestions in some quarters that there is no distinction between the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and the Yoruba nation campaigner, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
Speaking with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, Dare advised that public discourse should stop equating the two, stressing that the contexts, methods, and consequences are fundamentally different. “There is no basis for comparison between the activities of the duo, no correlation exists at all,” he insisted.
He argued that Igboho’s activism was largely centred on defending communities in the South-West against criminal activities attributed to rogue herders, as well as engaging in what he described as peaceful agitation for a Yoruba nation.
According to Dare, conflating the two figures ignores the different contexts, methods and outcomes associated with their respective campaigns.
Dare contended that Igboho’s activism was centred on defending communities in the South-West against criminal activities attributed to rogue herders, alongside peaceful agitation for a Yoruba nation.
According to the statement: “Nnamdi Kanu’s IPOB movement involved elements widely associated with insurrection and direct confrontation against the Nigerian state.”
“This included enforcement of ‘sit-at-home’ orders (often through threats and violence), resulting in numerous deaths (reports cite over 700 fatalities linked to enforcement clashes and defiance killings).”
“Other inimical activities include attacks on security forces, destruction of public infrastructure, and the formation of armed groups like ESN.
“Kanu’s rhetoric and actions escalated to calls that many viewed as inciting violence against the state and even against his own people in the South East who defied orders.”
The statement continued: “In contrast, Sunday Igboho’s activism centered on defending Yoruba communities, primarily against alleged killings, kidnappings, and farm destructions by suspected herders. He focused on self-defence, warding off criminal elements from Yoruba land.”
“Igboho also deployed peaceful agitation for Yoruba self-determination/Oduduwa Nation without establishing a militia to fight the Nigerian military, without ordering attacks on police/soldiers, and without imposing paralysing enforcement measures like sit-at-home orders that harmed civilians or the economy in his region.”
“The line is clear: one crossed into armed rebellion and violent enforcement that affected (and sometimes harmed) his own ethnic group, while the other remained largely defensive and localised against perceived external threats, without the same level of state-targeted insurgency.”
“Public discourse should stop equating the two; the contexts, methods, and consequences are fundamentally different,” he said
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