Igboho’s extradition: Buratai pushes move, activist’s team meets Benin’s officials, fights process The Punch
Eniola Akinkuotu, Friday Olokor, Adelani Adepegba, Kayode Oyero, Lesi Nwisagbo, Deborah Tolu-Kolawole, Olufemi Olaniyi, James Abraham, Dennis Naku, Raphael Ede and Bola Bamigbola
Published 21 July 2021
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Facts on Tuesday emerged about how Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Benin Republic, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd.), was instrumental to the arrest of the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho.
A top security source in the Benin Republic confided in The PUNCH that the former Chief of Army Staff wrote the government of the small West African country and insisted on the arrest and extradition of Igboho.