Obasanjo Negotiates Asylum For Sunday Igboho

Obasanjo Negotiates Asylum For Sunday Igboho with some Leaders in the Benin Republic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global News Reports That According to the report, former President, Olusegun Obasanjo met with some leaders in the Benin Republic to negotiate a place of safety for Yoruba activist, Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was gathered that Obasanjo pleaded with the country’s leadership not to allow Igboho’s extradition to Nigeria. He made the plea when he made a condolence visit to Nicephore Soglo, a former president of Benei republic who recently lost his wife.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The former President Obasanjo had traveled to Tanzania on August 1 and rerouted to Benin, according to TheCable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“He’s asking the Beninese authorities to grant the separatist leader asylum, and not to return him to Nigeria,” a source in the Benin diplomatic circle was quoted to have said. “The former president intervened at the request of some southwest leaders.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POLITICS NIGERIA earlier reported that Igboho entered hot water while trying to escape to Germany with his wife through the Benin Republic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Igboho has been on the run since the Department of State Security Services, DSS raided his Soka residence in Ibadan, Oyo state. Several arms, ammunition, charms, and fake passports were recovered during the raid. He is a wanted man in Nigeria.