Homecoming: Sunday Igboho Reveals Plan To Return To Nigeria

Eko Hot Blog reports that Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho has said he is now free legally to leave Cotonou for Nigeria, his home country, after almost two years in the French-speaking African nation.

Igboho, who spoke to the Nigerian Tribune from Cotonou on Sunday, 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.”

According to him, “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.

However, 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 appreciated the President of Benin Republic, Patrice Talon, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Wole Soyinka, Professor Banji Akintoye, Pa Ayo Adebanjo, Chief Dele Momodu, Yorubas in diaspora and Yoruba traditional rulers.

It would be recalled that Adeyemo was arrested on July 20, 2021, in Cotonou, while trying to travel to Germany at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport, three weeks after he was declared wanted by the Nigerian security agencies.

He was later granted bail and had since remained in Cotonou until he issued a statement on Sunday, disclosing that he had been granted full freedom to leave Benin Republic for Nigeria.

As at the time of filing this report, Adeyemo has not revealed the exact day he will be coming to Nigeria.

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