Sunday Igboho: Obasanjo meets Benin Republic leaders, seeks asylum for Igboho

Former Nigerian’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo has met the Benin Republic president, Patrice Talon, to seek asylum for Yoruba Nation Activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.

More so, Obasanjo made this plea when he paid a condolence visit to Nicephore Soglo, former President of Benin Republic, who recently lost his wife.

He had earlier travelled to Tanzania on August 1 and rerouted to Benin.

“He’s asking the Beninese authorities to grant the separatist leader asylum, and not to return him to Nigeria,” a source in the Benin diplomatic circle was quoted to have said. “The former president intervened at the request of some southwest leaders.”

Recall that the Yoruba Nation agitator Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, had been on the run since the Nigerian secret police invaded his home in Soka, Ibadan, Oyo State.

The security agents had indiscriminately killed two of his aides in cold blood and arrested many others, even his cats.

After an initial denial, the Department of the State Security Service (DSS) claimed responsibility for the midnight raid and paraded Igboho’s captured aides, accusing them of possessing firearms and instigating violence, a claim denied by the secessionist.