Sunday Igboho, a prominent advocate for the Yoruba Nation movement, has taken a significant step by submitting a petition to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, urging him to consider the Yoruba secessionist movement in Nigeria. The petition’s content remains confidential, but sources suggest it focuses on the ongoing agitation for an independent Yoruba state .
This move is part of the Yoruba Nation movement’s efforts to seek international support for their cause. Igboho, accompanied by notable figures like Prophet Ologunoluwa and the Diaspora Youth Leader, submitted the petition on behalf of Professor Adebanji Akintoye, the leader of the Yoruba Nation movement.
SaharaReporters reported that other dignitaries who accompanied Igboho were; Diaspora Youth Leader, Prophet Ologunoluwa, Vice President of Ifeladun Apapo, Fatai Ogunribido, General Secretary of Yoruba World Media, Alhaja Adeyeye, and Member of Yoruba Nation Movement, Paul Odebiyi.
The movement is seeking the immediate intervention of the UK prime minister and his government on their agitation to set up a country that will be predominantly owned by the indigenous people of Yoruba.
Multiple reports claimed that Yoruba historian and arrowhead of the struggle for the independence of the Oodua nation, Banji Akintoye had earlier accused the Nigerian government of trying to cajole agitator, Sunday Adeyemo (Igboho) to withdraw from the agitations.
