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The agitator of the Yoruba Nation, Sunday Adeyemo alias Sunday Igboho, will spend this weekend inside a cell in the Republic of Benin.
This follows the decision of the Cotonou Court of Appeal to postpone the hearing on his extradition to Monday July 26, 2021.
Igboho’s wife Ropo, who is German and was arrested alongside her husband at an airport in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, has however been released.
The agitator first appeared in court on Thursday amid uncertainty and protests.
Five days after his arrest at Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, Republic of Benin, it is becoming increasingly clear that the legal battle to either extradite him to Nigeria or release him could continue.
Ibrahim David Salami, who is one of Igboho’s lawyers, insisted that Igboho was arrested on Nigerian and German passports, contrary to claims he was on trial for possession of a Beninese passport while ‘he was not a citizen of the country.
Salami told BBC Yoruba that “it is not true that the passport of the Republic of Benin was found on Sunday Igboho during his arrest.
“What was found on him were Nigerian and German passports. His wife only had her German passport with her at the time of the arrest. “
Meanwhile, Maxwell Adeleye, the communications director of the Yoruba Self-Determination Groups coordinating body Ilana Omo Oodua, said the Nigerian government has yet to bring charges against Igboho.
Adeleye, in a statement, said lawyers handling the case reported after Thursday’s proceedings that the lgboho cannot be extradited to Nigeria.
The Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, has already formed a committee to examine the situation of the Sunday Igboho.
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