Igboho: YOV flays FG over efforts to silence agitators

A Yoruba diaspora group, Yoruba One Voice (YOV), has condemned in strong terms the spirited efforts of the Federal Government to silence agitators of Yoruba nation at all costs especially with the arrest of Chief Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho. It said that the FG’s approach had shown its desperation to crush and silence agitators at all costs. 

Igboho was arrested on Monday, July 19, 2021, alongside his wife, Ropo, by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, the Republic of Benin, while he tried to catch a flight to Germany.

The court in Cotonou will sit on Monday, July 26, 2021, to allow the Federal Government to bring up whatever evidence it may have against Igboho, who has since been in police custody for the past six days.

The group gave the condemnation at the weekend in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Mrs Omoladun Orolugbagbe, describing the continuous agitation for Oodua Republic as a child of necessity whose life could not be cut short by unnecessary harassment, intimidation,witch-hunting or incarceration of agitators.

YOV posited that what really spurred Igboho and other self-determination agitators was never for their selfish interests but for the general well-being of every son and daughter of Oduduwa. 

According to the group, the Federal Government has failed in stemming the tide of kidnappings, banditry, and terrorism in the country, but rather has been too quick to harass and persecute those who have dared to speak up about the government’s gross negligence and dereliction of duty.

It implored Yoruba people all over the world not to relent in their irrevocable campaign for self-determination for the people of the region, pointing out that the Yoruba nation had resolved to forge ahead with renewed zeal the right to its dream as entrenched in Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter on People’s Right.

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