Apologise to Igboho - Wole Soyinka tells FG

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has advised the Federal Government (FG) to apologise to Sunday Igboho after his home was invaded by the Department of State Services (DSS) officials.

Two of Igboho's associates, according to reports, were killed by the DSS officials during the invasion in his house in Ibadan on Thursday, June 29.

Based on intelligence, the DSS stated that Igboho was stockpiling arms to cause chaos in the region.

Soyinka in an interview with the BBC highlighted that the FG should stop pursuing Igboho as a criminal, and apologize to him for how the situation was handled.

“My advice to the government is that they should stop pursuing Igboho as a criminal because you have begun by acting in a criminal fashion against him,” he said.

“If and when Igboho comes to trial, I guarantee you the government will be very embarrassed.

“I think they should tell Igboho ‘we made a mistake’, ‘we should not have acted in this way’, ‘you are no longer wanted’, ‘go back to your home, in fact, escort him to his home and let him resume his normal life,” he said.

Igboho had recently called for a ‘Yoruba Nation’ over what he has described as a ‘Fulani invasion’ of the South-West.