Sahara Reporters
Dictionary.com defines appeasement as “to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: i.e. to appease an angry king” and to “yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles.” To date, two people have advised that Yoruba leaders and elders should appease General Muhammadu Buhari, The Butcher of Aso Rock, to release Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho by following the example of Igbo leaders who approached Buhari for the release of Nnamdi Kanu the IPOB leader.
Pelumi Olajengbesi, one of the lawyers of Igboho said “Therefore, and as a matter of urgency, Yoruba Leaders must urgently borrow a leaf from Igbo Leaders by approaching President Buhari to secure the liberty of Chief Sunday Igboho and that of all his associates from contrived charges against them.” In his own statement, Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi said “The controversies surrounding the continuous detention of Sunday Igboho can be addressed if Youruba monarchs, elders and stakeholders are ready to take a walk to President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Why should we appease tyrant Buhari to free Igboho and Kanu? What crimes have the two agitators for Yoruba Nation and Biafra Republic respectively committed? Has anyone of them been tried and…
