Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, has regained freedom from Republic of Benin after two years of trial, sets to return to Nigeria.

A video clip posted by Aare Dr. Dele Momodu on his Instagram page at Delemomoduovation, on Sunday, 8 October, 2023, shows Mr. Sunday     dressed in white and seated on a plastic chair reading out a prepared speech announcing his freedom and appreciated followers on all social media platforms.

He said, “I have fulfilled all the legal conditions attached to my bail a few years back and I am coming home to Nigeria, my country of origin, any moment from now.”  He added, “I am free and no legal encumbrance again.”

He thanked “sons and daughters” of Yoruba all over the world for their support, and also singled out a leading figure of the Yoruba nation agitation, Banji Akintoye; Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo, for their roles in securing his release.

Reports showed that commotion stirred up when he declared the Yoruba Nation’s sovereignty in March 2021.

He started a campaign to chase killer herdsmen and kidnappers out of the South-West states and went on to call on Yoruba in Hausa/Fulani or Igbo territories to return home.

He, however, fled Nigeria in July 2021 following a nighttime invasion of his Ibadan residence located in Soka, Ibadan, capital of Oyo State by the operatives of the State Security Services (SSS) around 1:00 am on 1 July, 2021.

The attack led to at least one death, while some of his belongings were vandalized.

The SSS claimed that seven AK-47 rifles, pump-action guns, and 5,000 rounds of ammunition, charms and other weapons were recovered from his apartment during the invasion.

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The judgment was later set aside by the Court of Appeal in August 2022.

He was later arrested at the Cardinal Bernardin International Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic while attempting to flee to Germany.

Attempts by the former President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to repatriate him to Nigeria were unsuccessful.