The Hausa/Fulani youths in Ibadan have expressed their concern on the ethnic dimension the farmers/herdsmen clash has taken, thereby informing the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Saliu Adetunji that they have nowhere to call home except Ibadan.
They also told the monarch that they were born and brought up in Ibadan.
The Hausa/Fulani youths expressed this on Tuesday at the Monarch’s palace.
Oba Adetunji in a chat with the team of a newspaper printed in Yoruba language, Gbelegbo, who went to officially present the newspaper to him at his palace yesterday, disclosed that the youth, about 200, said any time they have reason to travel to their states of origin in the North, their families and relations always ask them when they plan to return to Ibadan, which they call their home.
He said this while explaining that Ibadan is home to virtually all ethnic groups in Nigeria, and that the city has witnessed tremendous development in his five-year tenure.
The monarch will be five years on the throne today (Thursday).
He said the youth of northern origin insisted that Ibadan is their home, and that all they seek is the peace and prosperity of the city. They urged the monarch to appeal to those promoting ethnic crisis to desist, because they are all Ibadan.
The Olubadan decried ethnic computation to crimes, saying Ibadan is home to all and sundry as long as they shun criminality.