{"id":134331,"date":"2024-10-15T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T11:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt"},"modified":"2024-10-15T13:15:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T12:15:04","slug":"yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt","title":{"rendered":"Yoruba Nation: UK Govt didn\u2019t endorse Sunday Igboho\u2019s petition \u2013 Nigeria govt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government on Tuesday stated that the petition by Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho calling for the UK to consider the Yoruba Nation Agitation was not endorsed by the UK government.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that Igboho, had on Saturday submitted a petition to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, to consider the creation of a Yoruba nation.<\/p>\n<p>The movement is seeking the immediate intervention of the UK Prime Minister and his government in their agitation to set up a country that will be predominantly owned by indigenous Yoruba people.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by Amb Eche Abu-Obe, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,said following media reports on the petition, it invited the British High Commissioner in Abuja was invited to shed light on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the meeting , the High Commissioner noted with concern that the matter was over blown, indicating that the media reports were highly misleading.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurthermore, the High Commissioner informed that he was aware of the letter being delivered but added that it was merely an established practice of allowing the delivery of letters and petitions to No 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not endorsed by any agency of the UK government nor the UK Parliamentary Petitions Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UK government typically does not concern itself with petitions concerning the sovereign affairs of another country,\u201d Abu-Obe said.<\/p>\n<p>Abu-Obe quoted the high commissioner to have informed that such petitions had been rejected by the UK Parliamentary Petitions Committee and the UK Government in the past.<\/p>\n<p>He further agreed to continue liaising with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as needed, while reiterating the importance of the bilateral relations between the United Kingdom and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government on Tuesday stated that the petition by Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho calling for the UK to consider the Yoruba Nation Agitation was not endorsed by the UK government. Recall that Igboho, had on Saturday submitted a petition to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":134330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,13678,2625,3573],"class_list":["post-134331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-govt","tag-sunday-igboho","tag-yoruba-nation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yoruba Nation: UK Govt didn\u2019t endorse Sunday Igboho\u2019s petition \u2013 Nigeria govt - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government on Tuesday stated that the petition by Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho callin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yoruba Nation: UK Govt didn\u2019t endorse Sunday Igboho\u2019s petition \u2013 Nigeria govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government on Tuesday stated that the petition by Mr Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho callin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-10-15T11:04:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-10-15T12:15:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1728981873.056369.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"796\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Yoruba Nation: UK Govt didn\u2019t endorse Sunday Igboho\u2019s petition \u2013 Nigeria govt\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-10-15T11:04:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-10-15T12:15:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt\"},\"wordCount\":303,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/10\/sm_1728981873.056369.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Nigeria govt\",\"Sunday Igboho\",\"Yoruba nation\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/yoruba-nation-uk-govt-didnt-endorse-sunday-igbohos-petition-nigeria-govt\",\"name\":\"Yoruba Nation: UK Govt didn\u2019t endorse Sunday Igboho\u2019s petition \u2013 Nigeria govt - 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