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.
The senior lawyer said this in a statement following jubilation around the world that Igboho had been released on Monday.
This was made known in a statement by the Communications Secretary of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Maxwell Adeleye.
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 by the Leader, Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, Prof. Banji Akintoye, in a New Year message on Friday.
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.
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 agitators, under the aegis of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, made this known in a statement titled, “Governors in the Southern Region that welcome FG’s Grazing Reserves should prepare for a never-seen-before mass action”.
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”.
According to Agboola in a statement, all arrangements have now been concluded to ensure the smooth return of the radio show
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.
Have the people of the South West now become slaves in their father land? Have we finally been conquered and occupied?
The group also warned the Nigerian Government against arresting leading Yoruba Nationalists, especially Adams and the disputed President-General of the Yoruba World Congress, Prof. Banji Akintoye.
This was contained in a statement made available to the media on Sunday.
YWC is the umbrella body of about 100 Yoruba socio-cultural groups within and beyond Nigeria, with a Professor of History, Banji Akintoye, as its President-General