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A lawyer to Sunday Adeyemo (popularly known as Sunday Igboho) has announced his resignation as counsel for the Yoruba nation agitator.

Pelumi Olajengbesi, a managing partner at Law Corridor, said he had stated in the beginning that the scope of his work would only be within the purview of his professional duty as a lawyer to Mr Igboho and his aides.

“I am a strong believer in constitutional democracy, civil liberty and human rights which includes the right to self-determination but I am not a Yoruba nation agitator nor a member of any like organization,” he said.

Mr Olajengbesi’s action came amidst criticism by a Yoruba group, Ilana Omo Oodua, following a New Year Day statement lamenting the insecurity in the South-west region.

“Let it be abundantly clear that I am not at war with President Buhari, the governors or anybody in government,” the letter read.

The letter was signed by Mr Olajengbesi on behalf of Mr Igboho.

But a statement by the Ilana Omo Oodua group said the lawyer has no standing to issue a statement on Mr Igboho’s behalf.


This is to officially announce my resignation as counsel involved further in any matter relating to Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho and the Yoruba Nation Agitators.

As a firm, we are satisfied with our little best in contributing to providing legal solutions and representations to Chief Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) and associated Yoruba Nation Agitators as far as ensuring the protection and enforcement of their rights in this matter. We were able to secure the release of twelve (12) persons brutally and unlawfully arrested by the reckless State Security Service (SSS), and also secured the release of an innocent herbalist equally unlawfully arrested and detained by the SSS. We have two persons with on-going terrorism trials at the Federal High Court and our firm will dutifully continue and close the trial having commenced their matter.

While thanking everyone, particularly Chief Yomi Aliyu SAN for the opportunity, and freehand service, Dr. OLASUPO Ojo for his fair leadership and Chief Femi Falana for allowing his industry to be tapped and for the moral support, I most respectfully wish to now step aside.

I have stated ab initio that the scope of my work will only be within the purview of my professional duty as a lawyer to Sunday Igboho and his aides . I am a strong believer in constitutional democracy, civil liberty and human rights which includes the right to self-determination but I am not a Yoruba nation agitator nor a member of any like organization. My reaction to Prof. Akintoye was not to undermine the Yoruba struggle but is based off my personal convictions which I am entitled to. I do hope my friends in the struggle will allow me enjoy the benefit of my right to such a choice as a person of thought and conscience.

Thank you.

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Yoruba Nation: Crisis rocks Sunday Igboho’s legal team as Olajengbesi resigns
Kayode Oyero
2 January 2022

…I am not a Yoruba Nation agitator, says lawyer
A fresh crisis has rocked the Yoruba Nation secessionist agitation group led by Prof Banji Akintoye as Pelumi Olajengbesi, one of the Nigerian lawyers of self-determination campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, resigned on Sunday.

Olajengbesi had faulted the threat by Akintoye that no governorship election would hold in Ekiti and Osun States later this year.

The 86-year-old don, in his 2022 New Year message, had said, “Among most Yoruba self-determination advocates worldwide, the determination exists and is growing that there shall be no State Governorship and House of Assembly election in our homeland in 2022. The next election that we Yoruba people will engage in will be the first election in our own new country.”

Reacting, however, in an earlier statement, Olajengbesi said Akintoye wasn’t speaking for Igboho and the Yoruba people of South-West Nigeria, noting that voting remained a human right.

Akintoye’s Ilana Oodua group subsequently disowned Olajengbesi in a statement, saying he was not speaking for Igboho and accusing the lawyer of trying to please the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).


Prof Banji Akintoye and Muhammadu Buhari
Prof Banji Akintoye and the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)
Olajengbesi later in a statement on Sunday made available to The PUNCH, announced his resignation from Igboho’s legal team.

The lawyer said, “This is to officially announce my resignation as counsel involved further in any matter relating to Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho and the Yoruba Nation Agitators.

As a firm, we are satisfied with our little best in contributing to providing legal solutions and representations to Chief Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) and associated Yoruba Nation Agitators as far as ensuring the protection and enforcement of their rights in this matter.

“We were able to secure the release of 12 persons brutally and unlawfully arrested by the State Security Service, and also secured the release of an innocent herbalist equally unlawfully arrested and detained by the SSS.
“We have two persons with ongoing terrorism trials at the Federal High Court and our firm will dutifully continue and close the trial having commenced their matter.

“I have stated ab initio that the scope of my work will only be within the purview of my professional duty as a lawyer to Sunday Igboho and his aides. I am a strong believer in constitutional democracy, civil liberty and human rights which includes the right to self-determination but I am not a Yoruba nation agitator nor a member of any like organization.

“My reaction to Prof. Akintoye was not to undermine the Yoruba struggle but is based on my personal convictions which I am entitled to. I do hope my friends in the struggle will allow me enjoy the benefit of my right to such a choice as a person of thought and conscience.”

For about six months, 49-year-old Igboho has been in detention in neighbouring Benin Republic since his arrest around 8pm on July 19, 2021 at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou. He was earlier declared wanted by the secret police for stockpiling arms under the pretext of Yoruba Nation secessionist agitation, an allegation he had denied.


Also, Akintoye has since fled Nigeria after he suspected that the Buhari regime plotted his arrest, saying he was in Benin Republic to secure the release of Igboho, even as the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN)

hmmm

Sunday Igboho will soon be abondoned by his wife

Shebi my fellow Yoruba guys on this forum were running mouth that Sunday Igboho is feared and that he single ah deadly defeated the Hausa people during Ife modakeke fight

Coward

It will shock some people that 9ja will exist beyond 2023. Ibo and yoruba people are going nowhere.

Kai

Yorubas

I'm 65% sure that Op is a Yoruba man, but it's very funny that he's happy that a fellow Yoruba man who wants the liberation of the Yoruba's from this white man's experiment called Nigeria is being tortured and incarcerated in another man's land. I'm 100% sure that he'll borrow money from LAPO to host a party if Sunday Igboho dies today but God in heaven will not let that happen.

It is only a domestic pet that answers the name given to it by it's owner and i ask, does it mean that we have more of domestic pets in Nigeria than humans??

It's not a good omen for him to back down now, let Sunday Igboho's legal team look for capable hands versatile on human rights and international laws.

I think it is time they release Chief Sunday Igboho. If they won't charge him to court, then why detain him indefinitely? They know they have no case against that man.

Egungu don finally enter express..We warned igboho but he refused to listen

Sunday igboho should just commit suiicidet instead of eaten rotten beans in Benin republic.
Even the people he is fighting for are cowardss who don't know the importance of freedom.
I really fell for him

Bastardlyrich:
Sunday igboho should just commit suiicidet instead of eaten rotten beans in Benin republic.
Even the people he is fighting for are cowardss who don't know the importance of freedom.
I really fell for him

You are not coward, but your ancestors lost millions of people to Fulani army, you lost thousands of your people to the same Fulani army, you've been on this agitation for 55 years with no end in sight.

JAMO84:
You are not coward, but your ancestors lost millions of people to Fulani army, you lost thousands of your people to the same Fulani army, you've been on this agitation for 55 years with no end in sight.

That's bravery if you ask me.
You only fail when you give up and only cowaerds give up easily.
Freedom is expensive.
Slaverryy is free.
By the way I'm not Igbo if that's what u mean

Bastardlyrich:

That's bravery if you ask me.
You only fail when you give up and only cowaerds give up easily.
Freedom is expensive.
Slaverryy is free.
By the way I'm not Igbo if that's what u mean

Chasing the wind, even in yankee we have them, they are stocking up arms hoping to fight the Federal Government one day, until the FBI like DSS catches & rounds them up.

adamsmith914:
Chasing the wind, even in yankee we have them, they are stocking up arms hoping to fight the Federal Government one day, until the FBI catches & rounds them up.

Fight for what you believe in,it might work or not but atleast you tried.
I hate cowardicec

Bastardlyrich:
Sunday igboho should just commit suiicidet instead of eaten rotten beans in Benin republic.
Even the people he is fighting for are cowardss who don't know the importance of freedom.
I really fell for him

Who mandated that illiterate igboho to fight on behalf of anyone?

He will suffer for his stupidity.

Bastardlyrich:

That's bravery if you ask me.
You only fail when you give up and only cowaerds give up easily.
Freedom is expensive.
Slaverryy is free.
By the way I'm not Igbo if that's what u mean

You guys are just stupid for nothing.... Imagine this poor rat calling Yoruba names.


Yoruba are not your Stooopid tribe that start war in his backyard..... That form IPOB to kill its own people.

We do everything with plan and that is why we are above everyone else.

HeeBraHim2:


You guys are just stupid for nothing.... Imagine this poor rat calling Yoruba names.


Yoruba are not your Stooopid tribe that start war in his backyard..... That form IPOB to kill its own people.

We do everything with plan and that is why we are above everyone else.

No difference between you & your Almijirin Brothers in Gombe State, you are only as good as your neighbor, or do they need visa to enter the South West for visitation or work?

Wazobia2216:
So the lawyer after making all the mouth in the whole world eventually forsake Sunday Igboho

To think that the stupid lawyer had the guy to speak about Igbos

You don't need anyone to tell you that he was threatened or paid to mention IPOB

So who's the man now

He was threatened or paid to mention ipob by who?

adamsmith914:
He was threatened or paid to mention ipob by who?

The way this government is going about IPOB, you can't put anything pass them!

Why the lawyer who firmly promised to rep Sunday till the end, resign

Wazobia2216:

The way this government is going about IPOB, you can't put anything pass them!

Why the lawyer who firmly promised to rep Sunday till the end, resign

Did you not read the article or you couldn’t comprehend?

Igboho’s political God Father is accusing &!threatening Mr Barrister because he told the old man that he has no right to say that elections will not hold.

Papa is vexed because indirectly the lawyer has told papa Akintoye that Oduduwa is a waste of time. Afenifere you are on your own, as for us we are porting & voting full force get busy.

Wazobia2216:

The way this government is going about IPOB, you can't put anything pass them!

Why the lawyer who firmly promised to rep Sunday till the end, resign

Ipob are nuisances to society, they have been proscribed years ago by the Federal Government what more can one ask for?

HeeBraHim2:


You guys are just stupid for nothing.... Imagine this poor rat calling Yoruba names.


Yoruba are not your Stooopid tribe that start war in his backyard..... That form IPOB to kill its own people.

We do everything with plan and that is why we are above everyone else.

Afonja and mouth,can you show everyone here the plan.
You are making noise sir
So much sufferstication

Chai,Afonja!!!! Fear them!!! Them just support Sunday Igboho enter express,com leave am there

HeeBraHim2:


You guys are just stupid for nothing.... Imagine this poor rat calling Yoruba names.


Yoruba are not your Stooopid tribe that start war in his backyard..... That form IPOB to kill its own people.

We do everything with plan and that is why we are above everyone else.

This illiterate from the south wastee, why do you want to divert the topic, the topic dey talk about Sunday Igboho and his lawyer, illiterate like you no fit read to understand, mumu wetin bring IPOB here, ikpu Nkita like you