Pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has affirmed it would never stoop so low to beg President Muhammadu Buhari to set free Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, who is currently incarcerated in Benin Republic.
The group made this affirmation while reacting to calls by prominent Yoruba individuals and groups urging Afenifere to follow the footsteps of Igbo leaders and meet President Buhari to plead for Igboho’s release.
However, in a recently released statement signed by the group’s General-Secretary, Sola Ebiseni, Afenifere said there was no basis to beg President Muhammadu Buhari to release Sunday Igboho as he had committed no crime.
The statement read: “We do not have to beg the President to release Sunday Igboho. Sunday Igboho did not commit any offence whatsoever; that’s our position.
“Those who went to invade his house were terrorists in Nigerian security uniform and they have no right whatsoever and that has been tested in a court of competent jurisdiction. Igboho has been absolved and the government was visited with N20bn worth of damages.
“In spite of the impunity of the Buhari government, we insist that Nigeria shall not be governed except by the rule of law.”
