Nigerian govt intimidating British envoy over Yoruba Nation petition – Igboho

RIPPLES NIGERIA

Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has warned the Federal Government even as he claimed that the government was intimidating the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Richard Montgomery, over his (Igboho’s) recent petition on the Yoruba Nation.

Recall that Igboho had, on Saturday, submitted a 25-page petition to the office of UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, at 10 Downing Street, London, pushing for the recognition of a sovereign Yoruba nation.

Igboho in a statement signed on Wednesday, described the reported summoning of Montgomery by the Nigerian government as unnecessary. He labelled it an attempt to pressure the diplomat. He also insisted that such moves would not derail the ongoing push for a Yoruba nation.

The statement read: “The British government colonised Nigeria, and we are well within our rights to submit a petition to them regarding our demand for a sovereign Yoruba nation. Nigeria gained independence on October 1, 1960, from the British government, but the amalgamation of the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914 was a decision made by the British.”