Allegations Surface Against Tinubu Govt Over Sunday Igboho’s Frozen Accounts

The purported persecution of Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, which allegedly started under previous President Muhammadu Buhari, has been accused of being carried out by the administration of President Bola Tinubu.
In an audio message sent on Monday, Olayemi Koiki, the spokesperson for Igboho, made the assertion.
Why the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu has persisted in witch-hunting Sunday Igboho is unknown. As of right now, he remains on

“The list of wanted persons,” Koiki stated.
He continued by saying, “We requested that his bank accounts be opened, but they declined; the same is true for his businesses.

“Igboho’s offense was speaking out against the injustice that was occurring in Yorubaland, and the problems he raised are still present today.”

Igboho is regarded with respect elsewhere, yet he is still considered a criminal in his own nation, claims Koiki.

Only in his native nation is he viewed as a criminal, even when traveling the world. “No one has paid him yet, even after the court ruled that he should,” he claimed.

During the contentious raid on Igboho’s home in Ibadan in July 2021 by Department of State Services (DSS) agents, Koiki charged that the Buhari-led administration was trying to eradicate him.

The raid was allegedly carried out because of intelligence that Igboho was storing weapons, according to the DSS. Despite Igboho’s escape during the raid, the DSS subsequently labeled him sought and said they had found weaponry in his house.

Igboho fled to the Republic of Benin, where he was apprehended. He was then charged with instigating unrest, smuggling weapons, and encouraging secession from Nigeria when he was arraigned at the Court d’Appel in Cotonou.

There was celebration in some sections of the Southwest when Beninese authorities freed him in March 2022.

In addition, prominent Yoruba historian and Oodua Nation supporter Banji Akintoye said that when Igboho was in custody, the Nigerian government attempted to coerce him into abandoning his cause.

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The Nigerian government has allegedly failed to take Igboho off the list of sought people, Koiki bemoaned, despite court orders and the Benin Republic authorities’ decision to free him.
As a special envoy, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), the then-Chief of Army Staff, allegedly visited Igboho in prison and gave him a document pledging billions of naira in exchange for giving up his campaign for Yoruba independence, according to Akintoye.

Buratai took the document away when he refused to sign it, according to Akintoye.

Igboho allegedly wrote to Keir Starmer, the prime minister at the time and the current leader of the UK Labour Party, in October 2022, pleading with the British government to recognize and back the Yoruba independence movement in Nigeria.

Even after being freed, Sunday Igboho has not yet returned to Nigeria, and his supporters maintain that the government continues to unfairly persecute him.