The Agbekoya farmers’ society of Nigeria has disclosed that it will deploy magical powers to free detained Yoruba Nation agitator Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, if the government of Benin Republic continues to hold him.
Speaking during a peaceful rally on “State of the Nation” in Osogbo, the Osun State capital on Thursday, the association’s president Chief Kamorudeen Okikiola said Igoho was not a criminal, but a freedom fighter who is being held illegally through the influence of Nigerian government.
“Sunday Igboho is not a criminal and we know he is being held illegally. Benin Republic Government has stopped taking him to court, hence, we demand that he should be released through legal means.
“If they refuse, we will use our magical powers to get him out of the prison. I repeat, we Agbekoya, will get him out of Benin Republic detention and bring him back home,” he said.
Igboho is currently locked up in Benin Republic.
He was on July 20, 2021, arrested in Cotonou while trying to travel to Germany.
The Yoruba Nation agitator fled Nigeria after he was declared wanted by the Department of State Services (DSS) following the alleged discovery of weapons in his Ibadan residence.
He, however, denied owning the weapons found in his house, stressing that they were planted there.
