- Police disperses protesters, restores peace
Protest rocked the city of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital following the continued incarceration of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic.
Igboho was arrested by Interpol at the Cotonou Airport on Monday night while trying to board a plane to Germany with his wife Ropo.
There have been frantic move to prevent his extradition to Nigeria by Yoruba patriots and others who feared that he may not get justice in Nigeria.
On Wednesday, protesters armed with placards took to the streets in Ibadan demanding the release of Igboho by the Benin Republic gendermes.
The protesters which took over the road at Soka, close to the agitator’s home, and Challenge in Ibadan with placards, some of which read: “I stand with Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho Oosa,” “Free Igboho now, I stand with Sunday Igboho Oosa,” among others.
The protesters were chanting ‘Yoruba Nation, Igboho, Oosa’ and ‘free Igboho now.’
Though peaceful, the protest temporarily cause mild traffic in Challenge and the protesters sang the praise of Igboho, saying that they would not renege on demanding for Yoruba Nation.
Meanwhile, Sunrise News gathered that the protesters have been dispersed by the Oyo State Command of the Nigerian Police and normalcy have since returned to the Ibadan-end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway blocked by the peaceful protesters.