{"id":47352,"date":"2021-07-25T15:50:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?p=47352"},"modified":"2021-07-25T15:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T14:33:08","slug":"sunday-igboho-witch-hunted-buhari-govt-should-tread-softly-primate-ayodele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/sunday-igboho-witch-hunted-buhari-govt-should-tread-softly-primate-ayodele","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Igboho witch-hunted, Buhari govt should tread softly \u2013 Primate Ayodele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Sunday said Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, was being witch-hunted.<\/p>\n<p>Primate Ayodele made the remark while stressing that Igboho would regain his freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with DAILY POST, the clergyman said although he is against Igboho\u2019s agitation, the freedom fighter has done nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Primate Ayodele also urged the Federal Government to tread softly on Igboho\u2019s case, so it would not miscalculate.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ayodele: \u201cSunday Igboho will still be set free, he has done nothing wrong, He is only being witch-hunted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not supporting Sunday Igboho to cause division in Nigeria, I just want the FG to tread softly on Sunday Igboho so they won\u2019t miscalculate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Primate Ayodele also disclosed that Igboho cannot actualize Yoruba Nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEither they arrest Sunday Igboho or not, I don\u2019t see Nigeria being together as one in the nearest future as I had said, though it won\u2019t be Sunday Igboho that will actualize it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many Fulani or northerners have been arrested despite the fact that they showed in public that they have ties with terrorists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Igboho, who has been agitating for Oduduwa Republic, was arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic by security operatives.<\/p>\n<p>His arrest followed a decision by the Department of State Services, DSS, to declare him wanted.<\/p>\n<p>DSS declared Igboho wanted after a cache of weapons were discovered in his house in Ibadan, Oyo State, after a raid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Leader Of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele, on Sunday said Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, was being witch-hunted. Primate Ayodele made the remark while stressing that Igboho would regain his freedom. 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