Igboho is in trouble in Nigeria and the Benin Republic. While the latter is probing the passport he carried, Nigerian authorities accuse him of planning to stage a war against the state.
Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo was in the Benin Republic some days ago over the Sunday Igboho debacle, according to the Cable.
Obasanjo had travelled to Zanzibar in Tanzania on August 1 and rerouted to the Francophone nation.
He was said to have met with Benin’s President Patrice Talon after his condolence visit to Nicephore Soglo on his wife’s demise.
Soglo’s wife, Roseline died at 87.
Soglo was Beninise President from 1991 to 1996 and was one of the African leaders who intervened when the late General Sani Abacha jailed Obasanjo in 1995.
Igboho is in trouble in Nigeria and the Benin Republic. While the latter is probing the passport he carried, Nigerian authorities accuse him of planning to stage a war against the state.
Nigeria’s State Security Services (SSS) had on July 1 raided his Ibadan Soka residence in Oyo State in an operation in which two of his allies were killed while others were arrested.
Igboho who was subsequently declared wanted in Nigeria after the incident was arrested ten days later alongside his wife, Ropo at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou.
Talks of his repatriation between Nigeria have since ensued.
Igboho is one of the people of the Southwest of Nigeria seeking separation of the region from the world most populous black nation.
