Sunday Igboho Returns To Nigeria After Three Years In Exile

Information reaching the OsunReporters News has it that the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has returned to Nigeria about three years after fleeing the country for the Republic of Benin.

While confirming his return i, Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, in a statement said the Yoruba Nation activist was in the country for his mother’s burial which is scheduled to take place in Igboho and Ibadan.

A video futage posted online, Mr Adeyemo was seen waving to residents of Igboho town as he entered the town for his mother’s final funeral rites.

Recall that Igboho left Nigeria in 2021 following a bloody confrontation between his aides and DSS operatives who stormed his residence in the Soka area of Ibadan, the Oyo state capital for allegedly agitating for independence for the ethnic Yoruba people mostly in southwestern Nigeria.

However, he was declared wanted by the Department of State Services (DSS). The separatist leader was detained in Benin Republic in October 2021 while trying to fly to Germany.

The West African country had charged him with “associating with criminals”.

During these period, his mother died while he was incarcerated in the Benin Republic in 2023 and was unable to come home to pay his last respect.