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Yoruba nation agitation: Sunday Igboho takes petition to UK PM Starmer

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Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Sunday Igboho, has submitted a petition to the United Kingdom Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, for the creation of a Yoruba nation out of the present geographical expression known as Nigeria.

According to reports, Igboho submitted the petition on behalf of Prof. Adebanji Akintoye, the Yoruba Nation movement’s leader.

The movement is urging the UK Prime Minister and his government to intervene immediately in their agitation to establish a country that the indigenous Yoruba people will own primarily.

Igboho’s spokesperson, Koiki, revealed this on his Facebook page on Monday.

He wrote: “At exactly 14:00 hrs, Dr. Chief Sunday Igboho delivered a petition to the UK Prime Minister on behalf of Prof. Adebanji Akintoye, leader of the Yoruba Nation movement, and Olayomi Koiki, his spokesman @10DowningStreet.”

Igboho was at the forefront of the actualization of a Yoruba nation during the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Persecondnews recalls that Akintoye had previously accused the Nigerian government of attempting to coerce Igboho into withdrawing from the protests.

During the agitator’s incarceration in the Benin Republic, the octogenarian revealed that a former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, used his influence as an envoy to secretly deliver a paper to Igboho in prison, promising him billions of naira if he would renounce his agitations for a Yoruba nation.

However, he claimed that Igboho refused to sign the document, which Buratai later took away.

He said: “Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, came to him in the prison, promising him billions of naira if he would just sign a paper that Buratai brought.

“That he (Igboho) should say he had renounced the Yoruba Nation struggle, that he didn’t want the Yoruba Nation struggle anymore, that he had opted out of it.”

Igboho was arrested, along with his wife, on July 20, 2021, in Cotonou, while trying to travel to Germany at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport.

After a series of court battles, they granted him bail rather than repatriating him to Nigeria.

The bail condition effectively kept him in Cotonou, Benin.

Igboho thanked everyone in a Facebook video for their support during his struggle and imprisonment in Benin.

He specifically mentioned Yoruba monarchs, activists such as Prof. Banji Akintoye and Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, for their support while he was in Cotonou.

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