Sunday Igboho released from Cotonou custody, heads to Germany

Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (well known as Sunday Igboho) has been released from protective custody in the neighbouring Republic of Benin.

According to the Yoruba Nation leader, Prof. Banji Akintoye, Sunday Igboho’s release came a few hours’ ago and he is right now on his way to Germany to be reunited with his family.

Sunday Igboho had earlier told Sunday Tribune in Cotonou, capital of the Republic of Benin that said he is now free legally to leave Cotonou for Nigeria, after almost two years in the French-speaking African nation.

Igboho said: “I am now free to return to Nigeria and visit any country in the world. I have fulfilled all the legal conditions attached to my bail few years back and I am coming home to Nigeria, my country of origin, any moment from now.

“I can confirm to you that I am now free to come back to Nigeria. There is no legal encumbrance again. Even though I have been living in Cotonou for some time, I can confirm to you categorically that I have now secured the liberty to leave Cotonou for Nigeria”.

He commended some prominent Yoruba indigenes, politicians, the media, academia and Yoruba monarchs for what he termed critical support and solidarity he enjoyed from them while his sojourn lasted in Cotonou.

Igboho, who was at the forefront of the struggle for Yoruba self-determination campaign, under the Ilana Omo Oodua, specifically thanked the President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon; former President Olusegun Obasanjo; Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka; Akintoye; Pa Ayo Adebanjo; Chief Dele Momodu; Yorubas in the Diaspora, and Yoruba traditional rulers.