Leaked Audio: Igboho Slams His Lawyers For Their Failure, Says He Is Not Afraid Of Being Sent Back To Nigeria
Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba Nation agitator, has slammed his over ten lawyers in Cotonou, Benin Republic, for their total failure to secure his release after nearly 50 days in custody.
A leaked audio recording of the arrested activist speaking was obtained by The Punch.
The Benin Republic-based lawyers, including Ibrahim Salami, were blasted for failing to provide real results in his case, as compared to his Nigerian lawyers.
Salami and the other lawyers allegedly neglected and abandoned him in prison, despite getting roughly N5 million apiece.
After all, Igboho remarked, “Kanu is in Nigeria and we are agitating for the same secession.” Igno said he is not afraid of being deported.
While seeking asylum in Benin Republic, Igboho faces claims of trafficking of weaponry and provoking violence as well as discord among Nigerians.
According to reports, the activist was also accused of entering the Benin Republic illegally and of planning to provoke civil upheaval in the country.
The agitator, who is now detained, was permitted access to health care by the court, as his lawyers continue to fight for his release and fight against his deportation to Nigeria.
Igboho, on the other hand, indicated he was not worried about being deported in the leaked recording. He also mocked Salami and the other lawyers in Cotonou for their unprofessional behavior and inability to obtain his release.
Igboho said, “If they want to extradite me to Nigeria, let them go ahead. I am not afraid. After all, Kanu is in Nigeria and we are agitating for the same secession.
“I have been here for about two months and the lawyers didn’t come to check on me.
“It was God who apprehended me himself not any security official in Benin Republic. The God who arrested me will release me. That is my faith. Even if all the lawyers say they are no more interested in my case, God will free me. I am no more afraid of anything.
“Those are not lawyers. They called themselves lawyers yet they couldn’t stop the judge from remanding me in a prison. Lawyers that couldn’t prevail on the prison warders to remove handcuff from my hands for seven days. And they were all heavily paid. Some of them got N5m, N4m, N3m and they can’t get the chains off my hands despite the fact that I didn’t rob anyone and didn’t commit any crime. I am not afraid of any lawyer, let them do their worst. My being in prison was predetermined,” he lamented.
The activist stated he was not invited by the DSS before his house was raided, in response to allegations made against him by the Nigerian government.
“I was not invited but they came to my house with armored tank and destroyed everything.
“I only complained about the suffering of my people in the hands of criminal herders. I entered the bush myself and chased them out but the government came after me after failing to secure the people.
“I was never with any gun during my Yoruba Nation rallies. We own oil, we own almost everything in the South but we suffer the most. But we can’t continue this way.”
