Yoruba Nation: 'It Is No Retreat, No Surrender' — Soyinka To Sunday Igboho

Details of Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka's visit to Yoruba Nation activist,  Sunday Adeyemo ‘Igboho’ have emerged.

Soyinka visited Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic, to express solidarity with the Nigerian separatist leader and Professor Banji Akintoye, the chairman of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination (NINAS).

Photo News: Wole Soyinka, Wale Adeniran and Banji Akintoye after a closed-door meeting with Sunday Ighoho On Sunday In Cotonou, Benin Republic.

Accoring to reports, Soyinka also had a close door meeting with Igboho where he appreciated him for speaking out against the Nigerian government vis-à-vis his treatment.

“Igboho appreciated him (Soyinka) for his role in his freedom from incarceration which was propelled by the Nigerian Government.

"He also pledged his loyalty to the Yoruba people and assured the world that the Yoruba determination struggle is an idea whose time has come.

"It is no retreat, no surrender,” Vanguard newpaper reported.

Igboho And Benin Republic Extradition

Igboho and his wife, Ropo, were arrested on July 19, 2021, by the International Criminal Police Organisation at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, on their way to Germany.

Beninoise officials later released his wife but Igboho remained in detention until March this year, when they released him on the condition that he remain in the country “for the time being under full security,” according to his lawyer, Yomi Aliyu.