The Coordinator of Legal Affairs for the detained Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, Olasupo Ojo, has explained that Igboho has no plan to change his Benin-based lawyers.
Africa Daily News, New York reports that Igboho, had in a leaked audio, expressed anger with his team of about 10 lawyers in Benin Republic for failing to secure his release after about 50 days in detention.
In the leaked audio, Igboho had lambasted all his Benin Republic-based lawyers, led by Ibrahim Salami, and also complained about his alleged maltreatment and abandonment in prison by Salami and the other lawyers despite receiving about N5m each.
Igboho had said he was not afraid of being extradited to Nigeria.
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But Ojo, in a chat with newsmen on Tuesday, said, ‘He (Igboho) is not changing any of the lawyers in Benin Republic. We know the lawyers that are working, we know those are not working and we have adjusted according. For the sake of goodwill and everybody concerned, we are not removing any lawyer because each of those lawyers has their good sides and added advantages and we also need their goodwill. It is a foreign country.
‘So, we have decided to continue working with all of them. We can manage them. They are all contributing. He may not know what the lawyers are contributing outside; he is only concerned about who he is seeing. All the lawyers cannot be coming to the prison all the time.’
Meanwhile, Justice Ladiran Akintola of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday extended the restraining order he granted against the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN) and the Department of State Services against arresting Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho.
He extended the restraining order at the resumed hearing of the fundamental human right suit instituted by Igboho against the defendants on Tuesday.
AFRICA DAILY NEWS, NEW YORK
