Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, counsel for the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has said that the continued detention of his client by the Nigerian government has become completely unsustainable with the release of his Yoruba counterpart, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho.
Igboho, a popular agitator for the Yoruba Nation who was in Cotonou, Republic of Benin capital, said on Sunday that he was now legally free to return to Nigeria, after two years.
Igboho was arrested on July 20, 2021, at the Cardinal Bernardin Gantin International Airport in Cotonou, while trying to travel to Germany three weeks after he was declared wanted by Nigeria’s secret police, the Department of State Services (DSS).
He was later granted bail by a Benin Republic court and was allowed to remain in Cotonou.
Igboho is currently in Germany to see his family.
Meanwhile, Kanu who is also leading the agitation for the actualisation of the Biafra Nation in the Southeast region of Nigeria has been in the custody of the DSS since June 2021 when he was arrested in Kenya and renditioned to Nigeria to continue his trial on treasonable felony charge.
The Court of Appeal on October 13, 2022, discharged and acquitted Kanu of all the charges filed against him by the government under former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The court also ordered Kanu’s immediate and unconditional release from detention but the Nigerian government obtained a Stay of Execution from the same Court of Appeal and appealed the ruling at the Supreme Court, while the IPOB leader remained in detention.
Reacting to Igboho’s release, Ejimakor on Friday said, “The persisting incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu has become more unsustainable with the release of Sunday Igboho, especially as it was done with the support of Yoruba leaders and Tinubu.
“To be sure, it’s the Presidency that is holding Nnamdi Kanu, not the Supreme Court.”
