Federal Government, Not Benin Republic Govt, Keeping Sunday Igboho In Prison — Lawyer

Yomi Alliyu, SAN, the lawyer for Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemi, also known as Sunday Igboho, dismissed a social media report of an alleged plan to assassinate the activist in Benin Republic prison yesterday, claiming that Igboho is being held in prison by the Federal Government of Nigeria, led by President Muhammadu Buhari, and not the Benin Republic government.

He, however, warned those “flying the kite” to desist from spreading such speculations, assuring that Igboho would regain freedom soon.

Alliyu, in a chat with Vanguard, said: “I don’t have knowledge of a threat to his life. I speak with his wife regularly but I don’t have such knowledge of plans to eliminate him.

“We have persuaded his boys and Yoruba youths not to take laws into their hands. We told them that if they start killing and burning, they will be killing their kith and kin. We urged them to keep their cool. However, if anybody is flying such a kite to know the feelings of what will happen if Sunday Igboho is murdered in prison, I advise that such a person should have a rethink.

“I don’t think anyone is planning that except the enemies of this government. The only way this Government can wash its hands off this evil intention is to release Sunday Igboho now because they (FG) are the ones keeping him in prison and not the Benin Republic Government.

“If anything should happen to Sunday Igboho, we will hold the Federal Government responsible. That is why we have been appealing to Yoruba youths not to take laws into their hands because we are optimistic that Sunday Igboho will be freed and that the alleged plan to kill him is a mere rumour. I don’t see any threat to his life.”

Sunday Igboho had reportedly alleged that there was a plot by the Federal government of Nigeria to eliminate him in the Benin Republic.