Barring unforeseen factors, embattled Yoruba nation agitator Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) is scheduled to leave detention today.
A source close to him confided in The Nation that negotiation for his release to get medical attention reached an advanced stage yesterday morning, with assured expectation that Igboho would be left off the hook latest today.
Three weeks after he was declared wanted by Nigeria’s secret police, the Republican Police arrested Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho on the 19th of July, 2021.
Igboho, a campaigner for Yoruba self-determination, was arrested in neighbouring Cotonou, Benin Republic, while trying to travel to Germany.
A local newspaper in the neighbouring country, Banouto, reports quoted Beninise authorities as saying Mr Igboho was nabbed at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou.
He was “disembarked from his plane, arrested by the Beninese police while he was trying to travel to Germany and then transferred to the Cotonou Criminal Brigade.”
