President Bola Tinubu’s administration has been charged with carrying on the campaign that allegedly started under former President Muhammadu Buhari against Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho.
Olayemi Koiki, the spokesperson for Igboho, made the assertion in an audio message that was issued on Monday.
Why the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has persisted in witch-hunting Sunday Igboho is unknown. He is still on as of right now.
Koiki remarked, “the wanted persons list.”
“We requested that his bank accounts be opened, and they declined; the same is true for his companies,” he continued.
“The issues that Sunday Igboho protested against are still prevalent, and his offense was speaking out against the injustice occurring in Yorubaland.”
Koiki claims that although Igboho is treated with respect elsewhere, he is still considered a criminal in his own nation.
He is only viewed as a criminal in his native nation; everywhere else in the globe, he is not. He claimed that no one had paid him since the court’s ruling that he should be compensated.
When Department of State Services (DSS) agents conducted a contentious raid on Igboho’s home in Ibadan in July 2021, Koiki charged that the Buhari-led administration was trying to eradicate him.
According to the DSS, the operation was carried out because of information that Igboho was storing firearms. Despite avoiding the raid, Igboho was later listed as sought by the DSS, who also claimed to have found firearms in his house.
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Following his escape to the Republic of Benin, Igboho was taken into custody. He was subsequently charged with inciting violence, encouraging secession from Nigeria, and smuggling weapons at the Court d’Appel in Cotonou.
Parts of the Southwest celebrated his release by Beninese authorities in March 2022.
The Nigerian government allegedly attempted to coerce Igboho into abandoning his cause while he was in custody, according to prominent Yoruba historian and Oodua Nation supporter Banji Akintoye.
Koiki bemoaned the fact that the Nigerian government has allegedly failed to take Igboho off the wanted list, even after court rulings and the Benin Republic authorities’ decision to free him.
Akintoye asserted that Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), the then-Chief of Army Staff, visited Igboho in prison as a special envoy and gave him a letter pledging billions of naira in exchange for giving up his campaign for Yoruba independence.
According to Akintoye, “Buratai took the document away after he refused to sign it.”
Igboho is said to have written to Keir Starmer, the current prime minister and former UK Labour Leader, in October 2022, pleading with the British government to recognize and back the Yoruba independence movement in Nigeria.
Sunday Igboho has not yet returned to Nigeria after being freed, and his supporters maintain that the government continues to unfairly persecute him.
