Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, loses mother

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has lost his mother.

Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, disclosed this via his Twitter handle on Saturday.

“I can confirm today Saturday 22nd of July 2023 that Dr. Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) mother died,” he tweeted.

Sources in Igboho, his home town also confirmed

The details of the death is, however, unknown as of the time of filing this report.

Sunday Igboho, who has been in exile since 2021 was unable to see his mother before her death and it is not certain if he will be available for her burial.

He hails from Igboho in Oorelope local government area of Oyo state.

Earlier, his lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yomi Aliyu, has said his return to the country is on course.

Aliyu said that he believed that Igboho would have no problem on his return to Nigeria provided he doesn’t resume his campaign for the separation of Yoruba from Nigeria.

Igboho stirred the hornet’s nest when he declared the Yoruba Nation’s sovereignty in March 2021.

He started a campaign to chase killer herdsmen and kidnappers out of the South-West states and went on to call on Yoruba in Hausa/Fulani or Igbo territories to return home.

He, however, fled Nigeria in July 2021 following a nocturnal invasion of his Ibadan residence by the operatives of the Department of State Services.

The attack led to at least one death, while some of his belongings were vandalised.

The DSS claimed that seven AK-47 rifles, pump-action guns, and 5,000 rounds of ammunition, charms and other weapons were recovered from his apartment during the invasion.

Igboho, however, denied the claim, while, through his lawyer, he filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the DSS, obtaining N20bn damages in a September 16, 2021 court judgment.