Igboho: Why Obasanjo, Ooni, Others Intervened – Afenifere

Igboho Why Obasanjo, Ooni, Others Intervened - Afenifere
Igboho: Why Obasanjo, Ooni, Others Intervened - Afenifere
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Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has explained why former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, and Olubadan, Oba Saliu Akanmu Adetunji, and others had to intervene in Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho’s matter.

Africa Daily News, New York understands that Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, had been declared wanted by Nigeria’s security outfit, Department of State Services (DSS), and he is currently detained in Benin Republic.

The activist’s lawyers have applied for asylum on his behalf but the Benin Republic government has yet to respond to that request.

Amid Igboho’s travails, the Ooni of Ife set up a committee and sent a delegation to Benin Republic alongside Olubadan to observe one of the court proceedings on Igboho’s case.

The Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, also tacitly confirmed that Yoruba leaders are working ‘behind the scene’ on Sunday Igboho’s matter.

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Before Sanwo-Olu’s comment, Southern governors had asked DSS to inform them before carrying out major operations in the states. This was a few days after Igboho’s house was raided by DSS leading to the loss of lives.

On Saturday, the Special Assistant on Media to Obasanjo, Kehinde Akinyemi, confirmed that Nigerian ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo, met with the President of the Republic of Benin, Patrice Talon, in the first week of August.

Obasanjo was in Benin Republic on Monday and he met with the President but nobody knew what they discussed,’ Akinyemi said.

Reacting, Organising Secretary of Afenifere, Abagun Kole Omololu, commended the Yoruba leaders for their intervention.

He said the Yoruba leaders intervened because they do not believe that Igboho will get just if extradited to Nigeria from Benin Republic.

Omololu said, ‘Obasanjo is a Yoruba man first before becoming a president. Yoruba leaders are not noisemakers, they don’t make noise, they act. Look at the way we fought the NADECO battle, it was intellectually coordinated.

‘Obasanjo won’t want Yorubaland to be disgraced. We all know that Federal Government is after the Yoruba nation, not Igboho. Obafemi Awolowo tried his best but was rolled into prison. MKO Abiola was killed.

‘We want a bigger Nigeria that is working. It is restructuring or Yoruba Nation.

‘Ooni and Olubadan are Yoruba men before they are Nigerians. They have to look after their children. They will not allow Sunday to be extradited. This government is lawless, they believe in brutality, not legality.

 

AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK

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