Embattled Yoruba Nation Activist, Sunday Igboho, has berated his lawyers for failing to get him out of a Benin Republic prison where he has been detained for about 50 days.
Igboho, whose real name is Sunday Adeyemo, particularly lambasted one of his lawyers, Ibrahim Salami, for abandoning him for someone else.
This is according to a leaked audio published by Sahara Reporters. In the recorded phone call, Igboho was heard bashing his 10 lawyers.
He also complained about the maltreatment and abandonment he has suffered despite paying each lawyer nothing less than ₦3 million each, some even more. He talked about not getting preferential treatment from his own lawyer, Salami, when he came visiting but instead left him to discuss with another person.
Igboho said he was not afraid of being extradited to Nigeria. “After all, Kanu is in Nigeria and we are agitating for the same secession,” he could be heard saying.
“I told him (the lawyer) I was hungry and had to eat, and he told me to go,” Igboho said.
“I told him to see me; it wasn’t because of those people that he came here now. I was waiting for him for 15 minutes. If he had told those people to give him time to attend to his client, that one would not have said anything because he knew you came there because of me.
“But he abandoned me where I was. I didn’t know him before now; I wasn’t expecting him at all. I didn’t know it was Salami that lawyer, Falola, would be sending. I’m not a young boy now; I’ll be 50 years by October this year. I might have a small body but God answered my prayers. I’m a man and I know my worth.
“Are the lawyers God? The lawyers that can’t convince a judge to release me; see how many they are, about 10 of them, are those ones lawyers? The lawyers that can’t let them remove handcuffs from my hands for seven days until Falola came. It wasn’t small money that they collected, some collected N5million, some N4million. I’m not afraid of anyone of them.”
He was however appeased to attend to the lawyer as he would be coming again to help find a way around the case which he later agreed to.
