Nigeria: Benin Under Obligation to Reject Nigeria's Request to Extradite Igboho, Say Oyebode, Abass

25 July 2021

As the legal firework to stop the Republic of Benin from extraditing the embattled agitator for Yoruba Nation, Chief Sunday Adeyemo (a.k.a Sunday Igboho) resumes tomorrow, erudite scholars of International Law have argued that the Francophone country is under obligation to reject Nigeria's request to extradite him.

Among other conditions, the scholars predicated their arguments on the status of Igboho as a frontline campaigner for the self-determination of Yoruba Nation amid the provocative attacks on farmers and farm settlements in South-west states by 'killer Fulani herdsmen' and violation of federal character clause in the 1999 Constitution by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

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