Popular Fuji maestro, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, also known as Kwam 1, has pleaded with the president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to pardon activist Sunday Igboho.
He said the man needs to be pardoned so he can return to his country for peace to reign.
Kwam 1 said this during a recent performance. He pleaded that the president forgives anyone who has offended him.
In his words, he said, “Asiwaju, please anyone who has offended you, kindly forgive them. Irrespective of their tribes — Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa — we need to embrace ourselves.
“Akanbi, please let Sunday Igboho come back home, he’s one of our own. (Omo eni o sedi bebere, ka fi ileke si idi omo elomi) in Yoruba language.
It means, “One can not because one’s daughter has ample buttocks, he would put the waist beads on another man’s daughter.”
He continued, “Please, when Tinubu settles properly in office, kindly resolve this grey area. Let Sunday Igboho return to his root.
Likewise, other agitators from various regions, call their leaders to a roundtable discussion. I know it is what you can do, and you can do it.”
The activist was arrested by the Interpol at Cadjèhoun Airport in Cotonou, Benin Republic, in 2021. He had slipped off the hands of the Department of State Services and had fled to the Benin Republic.
