Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho has lost his mother, insideoyo.com reports.
Igboho’s spokesman, Olayomi Koiki, disclosed this via his Twitter handle, on Saturday.
“I can confirm today Saturday 22nd of July 2023 that Dr Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) mother died,” he tweeted.
Sources in Igboho also confirmed the news to insideoyo.com.
The details of the death is, however, unknown as of the time of filing this report.
Sunday, who has been in exile since 2021 was unable to see his mother before her death and it is not certain if he will be available for her burial.
He hails from Igboho in Oorelope local government area of Oyo state.
Earlier, his lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Yomi Aliyu, has said his return to the country is on course.
Aliyu told the PUNCH NEWSPAPER that he believed that Igboho would have no problem on his return to Nigeria provided he doesn’t resume his campaign for the separation of Yoruba from Nigeria.
Igboho stirred the hornet’s nest when he declared the Yoruba Nation’s sovereignty in March 2021.
He started a campaign to chase killer herdsmen and kidnappers out of the South-West states and went on to call on Yoruba in Hausa/Fulani or Igbo territories to return home.
He, however, fled Nigeria in July 2021 following a nocturnal invasion of his Ibadan residence by the operatives of the Department of State Services.
The attack led to at least one death, while some of his belongings were vandalised.
The DSS claimed that seven AK-47 rifles, pump-action guns, and 5,000 rounds of ammunition, charms and other weapons were recovered from his apartment during the invasion.
Igboho, however, denied the claim, while, through his lawyer, he filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit against the DSS, obtaining N20bn damages in a September 16, 2021 court judgment.
