Sunday Igboho Released From Cotonou, Now in Germany, Ibadan Lawyer Confirms

An Ibadan-based lawyer, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), who is counsel to the Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, (a.k.a Ighoho), yesterday confirmed that his client has been released from custody by the Beninese authorities, and is currently a free man in Germany.

The legal icon made this known to the New Telegraph Correspondent while confirming the report that his client had left the Republic of Benin and that he was set to return to Nigeria after regaining his freedom after two years of legal battle.

Asserting the claim that Sunday Igboho has been released from protective custody in Benin Republic and now in Germany, Alliyu said: “Yes, he has been released. He was released yesterday (Sunday). He is now in Germany. He is in Germany and he is now a free person, that is all I know”, he said.

He however added, that: “The former AGF hates the guts of Yoruba and that is why he kept Igboho in Cotonou. But because the current AGF is a Yoruba man and he knows the law, he has to do the right thing by getting him released”.

Travail leading to the detention of Chief Adeyemo started when in 2021, he proclaimed the sovereignty of the Yoruba Nation following his displeasure with the manner some Fulani herdsmen were attacking, maiming, killing and kidnapping people from the South-Western states. He particularly waged war with the leader of the Fulanis in the Ibarapa area of Oyo State by sacking him out of Igangan town.

Men of the Department of State Services (DSS) in July 2021, in a night raid bombarded his Soka Ibadan house, shooting sporadically into the compound, killing about two persons and whisking 12 others away to Abuja. Sunday Igboho then fled Nigeria, but was arrested at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic, while attempting to flee to Germany with his wife. The wife was later released but Igboho detained since then.