Ex-President Obasanjo reportedly meets with Beninese President on Sunday Igboho’s trial
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo may have waded into the issue of the trial of the Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Igboho, as the elder statesman is reported to have visited Benin Republic a few days ago.
The Cable reported that Chief Obasanjo initially travelled to Zanzibar in Tanzania on August 1 and rerouted to Benin Republic on his return leg.
Obasanjo was said to have met with Benin’s President Patrice Talon after his condolence visit to Nicephore Soglo on his wife’s demise. Roseline was 87 years old.
Soglo was Beninese President from 1991 to 1996 and was one of the African leaders who intervened when the late General Sani Abacha jailed Obasanjo in 1995.
Igboho is in trouble in Nigeria and the Benin Republic. While the latter is probing the passport he carried, Nigerian authorities accuse him of planning to stage a war against the state.
The July 1 Department of State Services (DSS) operation at his Soka residence, Ibadan, in Oyo State unearthed assault rifles and ammunition. Two of his allies were killed while others face trial.
On several occasions, Igboho boasted that he had the capacity to acquire weapons and face security agencies.
Ten days after he was declared wanted in Nigeria, Igboho and his wife Ropo, were apprehended at the Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou.
