Benin Republic has released Sunday Adeyemo, a youth leader popularly known as Sunday Igboho, from protective custody.
Igboho’s lawyer, Yomi Aliu, confirmed his release to TheCable.
“Yes, he has been released. He was released yesterday. He is now in Germany,” Aliu said.
Asked to speak on the state of his release, he replied: “I can’t speak about it”.
In July 2021, Igboho was arrested alongside his wife, Ropo, in Cotonou, Benin Republic, and detained at the request of the Nigerian government.
The Yoruba Nation agitator had fled Nigeria after the Department of State Services (DSS) raided his residence in Ibadan, Oyo state on July 1.
Igboho had planned a “Yoruba nation rally” in Lagos two days before the raid.
The raid led to the death of two people while 12 of his aides were arrested.
The DSS had alleged that Igboho was stockpiling weapons, and subsequently declared him wanted.
Attempts by the Nigerian government to repatriate him after his arrest were futile.
Benenise authorities later released his wife.
Igboho was arrested and detained in the country after being arraigned at the Court D’Apeal in Cotonou.
The charges against him included arms smuggling, inciting violence, and calling for the Yoruba to secede from the Nigerian state.
Igboho and his lawyers have denied all of the allegations made against him.
However, new charges of illegal entry and criminal association were levelled against him in a Benin Republic court.
He was released from prison to his medical practitioners in March 2022, with the agreement that he would not leave the medical centre or Cotonou for any reason.
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