By Marcus Ikechukwu
Fresh facts have emerged into why Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka, paid a visit to the Yoruba Nation activist Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho in Cotonou, Benin Republic on Sunday.
Elendu Reports gathered that the noble laureate, who himself has been a critic of the Buhari administration decided to visit Igboho to commemorate the Eid-el-Fitr with him.
On the sidelines of the visit, Soyinka also held a closed-door meeting with the Yoruba Nation Leader and the coordinator of the Ilana Omo Oodua group, Prof Banji Akintoye, as well as his deputy, Prof Wale Adeniran, in the city.
Igboho, having fled to the neighbouring country, was arrested in the West African country in mid-2021.
He spent more than five months in detention after which he was led off the hook but must remain within the country.
Soyinka said he had always wanted to see Igboho, to “sympathise with his predicament”.
The Nobel laureate, who was seen at the Seme border around 12noon on Sunday, was observed crossing to Cotonou, the commercial capital of Benin Republic.
Sources who saw him around the border said he was reportedly mobbed by a crowd while waiting to complete immigration formalities and repeatedly asked where he was headed.
His response was that he was on a visit to the Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Igboho to “break the Muslim fast with him.”
But when reminded that neither he nor Ighoho was a Muslim, he simply responded that it made no difference, stressing that he had wished to see Igboho, so as to sympathise with his predicament.
According to Soyinka, Ramadan is as good as any other season to express non-denominational solidarity.
Igboho incurred the wrath of the Nigerian government when his activism for the actualization of a Yoruba nation and that of the Indigenous People of Biafra IPOB was becoming an impediment and creating distractions for the Buhari government.
He was variously hunted by security operatives but was never captured by them until he fled the country when it appeared his life was in danger.
