Popular Yoruba historian, Prof Banji Akintoye, has given reasons for leaving Nigeria to Benin Republic. In an interview with BBC News Yoruba on Tuesday, Akintoye, who is also the leader of the Ilana Omo Oodua revealed that he left Nigeria due to reports that the Muhammadu Buhari government was planning to assassinate him. Akintoye said he had been advised by some Yoruba elders to leave Nigeria alongside Wale Adeniran to avoid getting killed. According to him, there was no way the government could have arrested him as his group has not been violent neither did it get involved in the