Revealed: Why Soyinka Visited Sunday Igboho In Cotonou

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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has reportedly said his visit to the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, in Cotonou, Benin Republic was to further map out strategies on how to achieve the objective of an independent nation, Vanguard reported.

Prof Wole Soyinka, had on Sunday visited the Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, in Cotonou, Benin Republic.

Soyinka also held a closed-door meeting with the Yoruba Nation Leader and the coordinator of the Ilana Omo Oodua group, Prof Banji Akintoye, as well as his deputy, Prof Wale Adeniran, in the city.

According to the report, the playwright, who was seen at the Seme border around noon on Sunday, crossing over to Cotonou, was repeatedly asked where he was headed, he responded that he was on a visit to Sunday Igboho to break the Muslim fast with him.

Reminded that neither he nor Ighoho was a Muslim, Nobel Laureate said that it made no difference.

He said: “Ramadan is as good as any other season to express non-denominational solidarity,” Soyinka stated.

However, sources said that Soyinka’s visit was in solidarity with Igboho and Akintoye.

While another source noted that the meeting, which was held behind closed doors, was to “map out strategies on how we are going to achieve our objective which is to have an independent nation.”

It was further learned that the closed-door meeting “may not be unconnected with the bid for Igboho’s total freedom and return to Nigeria.”

The source said: “Soyinka’s visit was just a solidarity visit and it was held behind closed doors. Since it was a closed-door meeting, it is not what you disclose to the public. It was a solidarity visit to further map out strategies on how we are going to achieve our objective which is to have an independent nation. If you must know, Soyinka played a prominent role in Igboho’s release from detention.”

On what Sunday Igboho said, the source stated: “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.”

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