The Yoruba Nation advocate, Sunday Adeyemo, extra generally referred to as Sunday Igboho has submitted a petition to the Prime Minister of the UK, Keir Starmer to think about the secessionist motion in Nigeria.
Though the motion described the content material of the petition as confidential, The Bureau Newspaper gathered that it revolved across the “Yoruba Nation agitation.”
The Bureau Newspaper learnt additional that the Yoruba Nation advocate submitted the petition on Saturday on behalf of Prof Adebanji Akintoye, the chief of the Yoruba Nation motion.
The Bureau Newspaper noticed that different dignitaries who accompanied Igboho had been; Diaspora Youth Chief, Prophet Ologunoluwa, Vice President of Ifeladun Apapo, Fatai Ogunribido, Normal Secretary of Yoruba World Media, Alhaja Adeyeye, and Member of Yoruba Nation Motion, Paul Odebiyi.
The motion is looking for the quick intervention of the UK prime minister and his authorities on their agitation to arrange a rustic that shall be predominantly owned by indigenous folks of Yoruba.
Recall that Yoruba historian and arrowhead of the battle for the independence of the Oodua nation, Banji Akintoye had earlier accused the Nigerian authorities of making an attempt to persuade agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) to withdraw from the agitations.
The octogenarian mentioned in the course of the agitator’s travails within the Benin Republic when a former Chief of Military Employees, Lt Gen Tukur Buratai (retd.) had by his affect because the envoy sneaked a paper to Igboho in jail promising him billions of naira if solely he would surrender his agitations for the Yoruba nation.
He, nevertheless, mentioned Igboho refused to signal the paper which was later taken away by Buratai.
He mentioned, “He has been launched fully. He has received the hearts of the folks right here for his power of character. They introduced cash to this younger man; what number of of our younger males will do this?
“Former Chief of Military Employees, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, got here to him within the jail, promising him billions of naira if he would simply signal a paper that Buratai introduced.
“That he (Igboho) ought to say he had renounced the Yoruba Nation battle, that he didn’t need the Yoruba Nation battle anymore, that he had opted out of it.”
