SUNDAY IGBOHO: Oyo OPC Coordinator, Comrade Rotimi Olumo Entreats President Tinubu to Pardon Yoruba Nation Agitator
SUNDAY IGBOHO: Oyo OPC Coordinator, Comrade Rotimi Olumo Entreats President Tinubu to Pardon Yoruba Nation Agitator.
Coordinator, Oodua People’s Congress(OPC), in Oyo-State, Comrade Rotimi Olumo has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to pardon the embattled Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly, known as Sunday Igboho, so that he can return to Nigeria, his home country.
This newspaper recalled that, in July 2021, Sunday Igboho was arrested by the Interpol at Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Prior to his arrest, the Department of State Services(DSS) declared him wanted for allegedly stockpiling weapons in his residence. The allegation that many Nigerians, especially, freedom fighters, human rights activists and others have described as unfounded, malicious, witch-hunting and defamatory.
The self-determination agitator was detained in a prison in the Benin Republic but was released in March 2022 to get medical attention on the condition that he would not leave the West African Francophone country.
Since his release, Igboho has remained restrained within Cotonou.
Oluomo, in his sincere appeal made in a press release issued in Ibadan, today, Friday, and made available to the newsmen, emphasized the need for peace, unity and progress in the country, which he maintained that it could only be achieved by freeing the politically victimised, and exiled citizens like Sunday Igboho.
Olumo urged President Tinubu to harmonise all interests, premising his argument on Nigeria’s unity.”Dear Mr President and our highly respected Father, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu! Sir, for the sake of Nigeria’s peace, unity and progress, please, free all politically victimised Nigerian citizens. Irrespective of their tribes — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa —, please, forgive all oppressed agitators, put in bondage. We need to embrace unity in diversities. We need to embrace ourselves. Once again, I, humbly, reiterate, please, pardon, Sunday Igboho.
“Our amiable, magnanimous and ingenious President, Asiwaju Tinubu! Sir, please let Sunday Igboho come back home. He’s one of our own. You elders say,’Aki Le Omo Buruku Fun Ekun Pa Je(the borrowed translation is – We don’t chase our own courageous son for tiger to devour, because of his audacity’).
“Mr President, Sir! Please when you settle properly, in office, kindly resolve this knotty issue. Let Sunday Igboho return to his root. Likewise other agitators from various regions in Nigeria. Sir, call their leaders to a roundtable discussion and let’s resolve all lingering issue fanning ember of secession agenda. Let’s resolve it amicably. Sincerely, we trust your carriage, courage, capacity and capability. You are able and capable to do it. Please, do it.
Olumo further prayed for the success of President Tinubu’s administration, and Nigerian citizens’ betterment of life.
The Oodua Peoples Congress(OPC) is a Yoruba nationalist, regionalist, and vigilante organization in Nigeria. It is also known as the Oodua Liberation Movement or the Revolutionary Council of Nigeria. It is based in southwestern Nigeria and has grassroots support within the Yoruba ethnic community, and beyond.
