Yoruba Nation agitation: I only visited Oluwo palace in 2018 – Sunday Igboho disowns monarch’s intervention

The Yoruba Freedom Fighter, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Igboho, has denied that he visited the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, to intervene between him and the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Recall that Oba Akanbi, on Friday, had urged President Buhari to forgive Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho.

The Oluwo in his letter titled, ‘Igboho Saga: Oluwo Intervenes, Writes Buhari,’ advised the President to slow down the security trail on Igboho.

The monarch, in the letter signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Alli Ibraheem, stated that he will bring Igboho for a peace talk at the appropriate time.

But the camp of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, on Saturday denied that he was about to soft-pedal or dialogue with the federal authorities.

Reacting last night to Friday’s offer by the Oluwo of Iwo to intervene in the face-off between the government and Sunday Igboho, the spokesman of the activist, Olayomi Koiki, said there had been no contact between the monarch and the agitator lately.

Koiki also denied that Igboho was about to drop the agitation for the Yoruba nation.

Koiki, his spokesman, said that he was not aware of any contact lately between Oba Akanbi and Igboho.

“Not at any time, not even a single call,” he said.

But he admitted that Igboho visited the oba way back in 2018 to reciprocate a similar one by the traditional ruler to the activist.

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He said it was on that occasion at the Oluwo’s palace that the photograph of Igboho prostrating for the oba, now trending on social media, was taken.

“The news that Chief Sunday Adeyemo visited the Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi is not true,” he said.

“The 2018 picture was taken during a return visit after he (Oluwo) came to chief’s house.”

He insisted that Igboho has also not dropped his agitation for the Yoruba nation.

He said any claim to the contrary is a lie.

He promised to give a comprehensive response soon by way of an audio message.

KEYWORDS: Oluwo, Sunday Igboho, DSS, Muhammadu Buhari, Oluwo of Iwo

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