The Yoruba Global Alliance is monitoring the alleged seizure of Mr Sunday Adeyemo Igboho, aka, Igboho Oosha, in Benin Republic enroute Germany.
Details of his arrest is still sketchy, but we are watching with intense fascination as the drama of his illegal detention unfolds.
Right in the middle of the 21st century Nigerians are recording a muscular form of democracy under General Muhammadu Buhari who is daily retreating into a dangerous dictator bent on grounding Nigeria in shame among the comity of nations.
We are witnessing the sudden and shocking re-emergence of military chauvinism in virtually all areas of our national life.
Sunday Igboho emerged like a messianic figure and with his disarming simplicity and humility was able to enlarge a circle of mutual trust and solidarity with his Yoruba tribe at a defining moment when his tribe faced genocide from Fulani herdsmen.
He gave Yoruba elevated understanding of the auguries that lay ahead if the activities of Fulani herdsmen are not curtailed in the South Western region of Nigeria. He contributed to a new social engineering through his seamless and peaceful awareness rallies that soon gained universal respect and support from Yoruba worldwide.
We are aware that Nigeria has morphed into a “one chance” democracy that is bent on defending Fulani sectarian interest, curtail freedom, and use military clamp down on opposition figures. This totalitarian impulse ferment in ignorance, oppression, fear, and moral defeat.
General Buhari has been deploying the logic of the ghetto to hunt self-determination groups while cuddling and pampering Fulani herdsmen, murderous bandits, merciless kidnappers, and criminals across Northern Nigeria.
The Yoruba Global Alliance warns that Mr Sunday Igboho must not be physically brutalised. He must go through and exhaust all the judicial processes pertaining to extradition between Nigeria and Republic of Benin and must have legal representation all the way.
The public must know the type of crime Mr Sunday Igboho committed to be declared wanted as we do not believe in the earlier trump up framing of stock pilling arms and ammunition levelled against him by the Nigerian state. The ongoing backward, illiterate, lawless and military form of stripping Nigerian protesters, self-determination and oppositional groups of their liberty and freedom under this ignoble APC-led government of General Muhammadu Buhari must be recorded for accountability at the appropriate time.
Taju Tijani
Director of Public Communication
Yoruba Global Alliance
