Yemi Aliyyu, Lead Counsel to Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemi, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, said his client was yet to be released by the authorities of Benin Republic.
The senior lawyer said this in a statement following jubilation around the world that Igboho had been released on Monday.
According to Aliyyu, he was only released to attend to his health.
He said in the statement: “Igboho has not been released; he was only released to be taken to the hospital to attend to his ill health.
“The last time we spoke, I told you that we were making arrangements to take him to the hospital over his ill health.
“So, he was released based on health grounds.
“I am to inform you that Chief Sunday Adeyemo has been released from prison to his medical practitioners under the agreement that he should not leave the medical centre or Cotonou for any reason.”
Aliyyu praised the Leader of Ilana Omo Odua, Prof. Banji Akintoye, and Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, for “this turnaround in our client’s matter”.