FG can’t intimidate us, Igboho’s aide says as activist spends second night in Cotonou cell

21 July 2021




The Federal Government can’t intimidate Yoruba Nation agitators, Olayomi Koiki, spokesman for embattled activist, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, has said.

Koiki made this known in a Facebook Live address on Wednesday morning as his principal spends his second night in a police cell in Cotonou, Benin Republic.

“We are not going to allow the government to intimidate us. We are not going to allow the Federal Government and politicians to deceive us.

“We must remain strong and remain calm as we get freedom for Chief Sunday Igboho and the Yoruba race,” he said.

The PUNCH had earlier reported that Igboho and his wife, who is a German citizen, were arrested on Monday night at the Cadjèhoun airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic, one of Nigeria’s neighbouring countries in the West African sub-region. Igboho was arrested while he tried to catch a flight to Germany with his wife.

The activist and his wife were said to have been arrested by INTERPOL at the behest of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

Lead counsel for Igboho, Yomi Alliyu ( SAN), described as inhuman, the treatment his client was being subjected to in the custody of the police in Benin Republic.



He said, “They chained him in the cell where they put him in Cotonou. There was a fracas at the airport yesterday when he was arrested. They hit him in the hand and that same hand was handcuffed, he is in pains and he was weeping like a child when I called, I heard him.


“The wife too was put in a separate cell but they didn’t chain the wife. He was crying, the wife was crying too cease he was writhing in pains seriously. We only pray they don’t pay anybody to kill him. You don’t out somebody in cell and still chain the person.

The PUNCH learnt that Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), has been pushing for the extradition of Igboho and his wife to Nigeria.

But Alliyu argued that “The Extradition Treaty of 1984 between Togo, Nigeria, Ghana and Republic of Benin excluded political fugitives. It also states that where the fugitive will not get justice because of discrimination and/or undue delay in prosecution the host country should not release the fugitive.

“Now, Article 20 of African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights to which the four countries are signatories made agitation for self-determination a fundamental right to be protected by all countries. This made Chief Sunday Adeyemo a political offender who cannot be deported and/or extradited by the good people of the Republic of Benin for any reason.”

The senior advocate, who described the arrest of his client as shocking, urged the government of Germany, Benin Republic and the international community “to rise up and curb the impunity of the Nigerian Government by refusing any application for extradition of our Client who already has application before the International Criminal Court duly acknowledged”.

The Nigerian secret police had raided Igboho’s Ibadan residence in the Soka area on July 1, 2021, arrested about 12 of his aides and killed two of them in a gun duel.

The Federal Government of Nigeria had placed the Nigeria Immigration Service and the Nigeria Customs Service on alert to stop Igboho from leaving the country.

But Sunday Igboho cried in chain yesterday and you're saying you not intimidated

Stop shouting from a basement.

PrinceOfLagos:
But Sunday Igboho cried in chain yesterday and you're saying you not intimidated

why do u support injustice..when will ur master track boko Haram leader and arrest them. When will ur master arrest all the Fulanis terrorists group terrorising d nation

KoleDgreat2020:
why do u support injustice..when will ur master track boko Haram leader and arrest them. When will ur master arrest all the Fulanis terrorists group terrorising d nation

..Cry me a river.So all the Bandits and Boko Haram that are being killed by the army every week wailing has not made you to be aware?... Igboho the illitrate thug is been treated in the language he understands..I thought he claimed to have juju? How comes he was arrested like a fowl?

KoleDgreat2020:
why do u support injustice..when will ur master track boko Haram leader and arrest them. When will ur master arrest all the Fulanis terrorists group terrorising d nation

Cos fulani terrorist and bandits are freedom fighters that aimed at annexing all ancestral land of indigenous people of Nigeria to their fulanis loots across Sahara Africa

This people are talking too much.
Both his lawyers and his aides
Imagine saying that he's crying like a baby

KoleDgreat2020:
why do u support injustice..when will ur master track boko Haram leader and arrest them. When will ur master arrest all the Fulanis terrorists group terrorising d nation

PrinceOfLagos:
But Sunday Igboho cried in chain yesterday and you're saying you not intimidated

Even cownu rolled on the floor begging for forgiveness.

Sunday has been set free na.

Him for no use Cotonu escape.

Not even via airport.

Their are many ways.

He will spend the rest of his life in prison chained like monkey and crying like a child. the foolish dagboru . Good work Fg