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YORUBA Nation agitator and activist, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday IGBOHO is still under the watchlist since he was declared wanted by the DSS under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.
These accusations was made by his spokesman, Olayemi Koiki, on Monday, in an audio sent to SaharaReporters.
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Koiki lamented that Igboho has been unable to return to Nigeria due to the administration’s refusal to remove him from the wanted persons list, while his businesses and bank accounts have also been shut down.
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“It is unclear why the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration has continued to witch-hunt Sunday Igboho. Till today, he is still on the wanted persons list,” Koiki said.
“We asked that his bank accounts be opened and they refused; same for his companies.”
“Sunday Igboho’s offence was standing up against the injustice happening in Yorubaland and the issues he protested against are still prevalent,” he said.
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“When Igboho travels round the world, he is not seen as a criminal but only in his home country. Even when the court said he should be compensated, no one compensated him till date.”
Koiki accused then-President Muhammadu Buhari of plotting to kill Igboho during the raid on his Ibadan residence by the Department of State Services (DSS) in July 2021.
The DSS claimed it carried out the raid based on intelligence that Igboho was stockpiling weapons, although Igboho managed to escape. Afterwards, the DSS said they recovered firearms from his home and declared him wanted, urging him to surrender.
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Following the raid, Igboho fled to the Republic of Benin, where he was arrested and tried. He was arraigned at the Court D’Apeal in Cotonou and detained in a local prison. The charges against him included arms smuggling, inciting violence, and calling for the Yoruba to secede from Nigeria.
SaharaReporters earlier reported that in October 2022, Igboho petitioned the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, urging him to consider the Yoruba secessionist movement in Nigeria.
Yoruba historian and prominent advocate for the Oodua Nation, Prof. Banji Akintoye, also accused the Nigerian government of trying to pressure Igboho into abandoning his cause. Akintoye recalled that while Igboho was detained in Benin, the then-Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), acting as an envoy, delivered a document to Igboho in prison. The document allegedly offered billions of naira in exchange for renouncing his agitation for Yoruba independence.
According to Akintoye, Igboho refused to sign the document, and Buratai subsequently took it away.
Igboho was eventually released by the Beninese government in March 2022, leading to celebrations in the South-West region.
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