Akintoye offered the explanation following insinuations that President Bola Tinubu was involved in Igboho’s freedom.
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The YCE listed the Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Prof. Banji Akintoye, and Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho.
Olajengbesi is the lawyer defending the aides of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, against the DSS
The umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups, Ilana Omo Oodua (IOO) led by Prof. Akintoye had in a statement said that Osun and Ekiti state governorship elections will not hold in 2022.
This was disclosed via a statement issued by the spokesman of Professor Akintoye, Maxwell Adeleye, on Monday.
Akintoye and the 44 other leaders of the NINAS announced their decision to quit in a statement they issued on Tuesday.
NINAS was the umbrella body of self-determination groups in the South and Middle Belt Regions of Nigeria with Ilana Omo Oodua representing the Yoruba bloc, Lower Niger Congress representing the South East and South South, and the Middle-Belt Rennaissance Movement representing the Middle-Belt Region.
The gunmen, according to a statement, struck at the Ado-Ekiti country home of Akintoye on October 30, 2021.
This was revealed by one of his lawyers in an interview with BBC Yoruba.
He alleged that the Nigerian Government has started hiring black foreigners living in the United States of America with $500 per head to stage a Pro-Buhari and One Nigeria March opposite the United Nations Headquaters in New York, United States.
The Nation reports Igboho has been in detention since July 19, 2021 when he was arrested by Interpol at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou.
Akintoye confirmed that he is in the Republic of Benin, but “not on the run”.
Maxwell Adeleye, the spokesperson for Ilana Omo Oodua, a Yoruba self-determination group, said in a statement that the 47 agitators were released on Tuesday having met their bail conditions.
Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu charged the suspects before a Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba.
The 37-page manual contained the dos and don’ts for agitators, including the reason for the agitation.
To this end, the group has written another letter to the Commissioner, Lagos State Police Command, Hakeem Odumosu
Igboho confirmed the decision to go ahead with the rally through his spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, in a Facebook Live broadcast on Friday
Akintoye, who also heads the umbrella body for Yoruba self-determination groups, Ilana Omo Oodua, said this in a disclaimer by the group’s Media Communications Secretary, Maxwell Adeleye, titled, ‘Ilana Omo Oodua is not in any working relationship with Nnamdi Kanu and IPOB’ on Monday.
Tinubu and other APC leaders in the South-West, including Chief Bisi Akande, had at a meeting on Sunday opposed Yoruba Nation, supported one Nigeria, restructuring, ranching and open grazing ban.
The agitators held a rally in the state capital, Akure, displaying banners showing their demand for Yoruba Nation.