Igboho blasts own lawyers in Benin Republic, says he’s ready for extradition to Nigeria

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Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho has flayed his 10 lawyers in Benin Republic for failing to secure his release 50 days after he was detained in the West African nation.

He spoke in a leaked audio that is currently making the rounds.

According to him, the Ibrahim Salami-led team in Benin Republic has not achieved tangible results like his Nigeria-based legal team.

Igboho said that despite getting as much as N5 million each as payment, the Salami-led team allegedly maltreated and abandoned him in prison.

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He said he was no longer afraid of being extradited to Nigeria, where a fellow agitator and IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu is being held.

“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 definitely 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 ones 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,” Igboho said.

Igboho denied being invited by the Department of State Services (DSS) before the raiding of his home on July 1.

“I was not invited but they came to my house with armoured 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,” he said.

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