Freedom fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Igboho, has formally submitted a petition to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, advocating for the establishment of a sovereign Yoruba nation.
It has been reported that Sunday Igboho submitted the petition on behalf of Prof. Adebanji Akintoye, the prominent leader of the Yoruba Nation movement.
The movement is actively seeking the prompt intervention of the UK Prime Minister and his administration in their pursuit of establishing a nation primarily governed by the indigenous Yoruba populace.
This information was communicated by Igboho’s spokesperson, Koiki, through his social media platform on Monday.
He wrote: “At exactly 14:00 hrs Dr. Chief Sunday Igboho delivered a petition to the UK Prime Minister on behalf of Prof. Adebanji Akintoye, leader of the YORUBA NATION movement, and Olayomi Koiki, his spokesman @10DowningStreet.”
Sunday Igboho has been a prominent figure in the campaign for the realization of a Yoruba nation.
It is noteworthy that Akintoye had previously accused the Nigerian government of attempting to persuade Igboho to retract his demands for the establishment of a Yoruba nation.
The nonagenarian stated that during the activist’s challenges in the Benin Republic, a former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), had leveraged his influence as an envoy to clandestinely deliver a document to Sunday Igboho in prison, offering him a substantial sum of billions of naira in exchange for his renunciation of the campaign for a Yoruba nation.
Nevertheless, he asserted that Igboho declined to endorse the document, which was subsequently removed by Buratai.
He said: “Former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, came to him in the prison, promising him billions of naira if he would just sign a paper that Buratai brought.
“That he (Igboho) should say he had renounced the Yoruba Nation struggle, that he didn’t want the Yoruba Nation struggle anymore, that he had opted out of it.”
