Sunday Igboho confident he will regain his freedom adding that he is not scared of detention

YORUBA Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo has expressed confidence about gaining his freedom even if he is returned to Nigeria by Benin Republic whose authorities are currently holding him because they is no offence he can be found guilty of.

On July 1, Mr Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, fled Nigeria after his Ibadan home was raided by security forces who killed two of his aides and arrested a further 13. Mr Igboho subsequently turned up in Benin Republic but was arrested at Cotonou airport while he was trying to board a plane to Germany.

He has since been charged with several immigration offences by the Beninoise authorities with the Nigerian ambassador to Benin desperately trying to get him extradited. Unperturbed by all the drama, Igboho said he does not mind being detained like Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob) leader Nnamdi Kanu.

Mr Igboho said: “I am determined to get something done, nobody will resist me. When I insisted that the detention facility that I was kept here should be changed, they were forced to change it.

"I have accepted destiny and am no longer scared of anyone. I am ready to face the judge that I am no longer scared of him. He should do whatever he likes.

“If they want to return me to Nigeria, they should go ahead. There is God there. Nnamdi Kanu is also in Nigerian custody and we are fighting a similar cause, so I don’t care if I am returned to Nigeria too. "

For now, Igboho is currently in a detention facility in Cotonou, while four of his aides are in the detention of the Department of State Services. According to Maxwell Adeleye, a spokesman for Ilana Omo Oodua, the umbrella body of Yoruba self-determination groups, Mr Igboho's release from detention is being delayed by the vacation embarked upon by judges in Benin Republic.

He explained that the judges would resume on September 15 from vacation. Mr Adeleye said: “The judges are on vacation. They are expected to hear his case after the resumption and he should be freed.

"There was no vacation judge to hear the case. It is not like Nigeria where you have vacation judges."