Pelumi Olajengbesi, one of the lawyers representing Sunday
Adeyemo, a Yoruba youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, has resigned from
the activist’s legal team.
Igboho is being detained in Cotonou, Benin Republic after he
was the arrested with Ropo, his wife at Cardinal Bernardin International
Airport, Cotonou, while on their way to Germany on July 16, 2021.
Olajengbesi announced his resignation on Sunday in a
statement on his Facebook page.
The lawyer said he was satisfied with his professional
contribution to the legal team, adding that he does not want to be associated
with any agitation for the Yoruba nation.
“This is to
officially announce my resignation as counsel involved further in any matter
relating to Chief Sunday Adeyemo Igboho and the Yoruba nation agitators,” the
statement reads.
“As a firm, we are satisfied with our little best in
contributing to providing legal solutions and representations to Igboho and
associated Yoruba nation agitators as far as ensuring the protection and
enforcement of their rights in this matter.
“We were able to secure the release of 12 persons brutally and
unlawfully arrested by the reckless State Security Service (SSS), and also
secured the release of an innocent herbalist equally unlawfully arrested and
detained by the SSS.
“I have stated ab
initio that the scope of my work will only be within the purview of my
professional duty as a lawyer to Sunday Igboho and his aides.
“I am a strong believer in constitutional democracy, civil
liberty and human rights which includes the right to self-determination but I
am not a Yoruba nation agitator nor a member of any like organisation.”
Olajengbesi’s resignation comes days after Banji Akintoye,
the leader of Ilana Omo Oodua Worldwide, a Yoruba self-determination group,
said Igboho would soon be released from detention.
Akintoye had also said there would be “no state governorship
and house of assembly elections in our homeland in 2022”, adding that “the next
election that we Yoruba people will engage in will be the first election in our
own new country”.
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