Ibrahim Salami, one of the lawyers representing Sunday
Adeyemo, Yoruba Nation activist better known as Sunday Igboho, says a new
charge was brought up against his client on Monday.
Salami said Igboho came to Benin through a back channel and
the judge said he might have had some criminal association while in Benin,
calling for further investigation on his entrance and stay in the country.
The lawyer said there were nine lawyers who represented
Igboho at the Beninese court, and they were all shocked to see how the case
turned out.
In an interview with the BBC, Salami said if Igboho wanted to cause problems in Benin, he would have stayed longer in the country, but he was willing to leave the country less than 24 hours after coming to Benin.
He said the court eventually ruled that Igboho be held in a
Beninese prison until the investigation is concluded.
A final judgment has not been made by the Beninese court
sitting in Cotonou, but the lawyers are now seeking to bail Igboho pending the
investigation.
He said the case started with fighting off extradition to
Nigeria, but ended as a case of Sunday Adeyemo versus the Benin Republic.
Igboho was sent back to prison on Tuesday by the court,
following a 13-hour hearing at the Cotonou court of appeal.
Igboho and his wife, Ropo, were arrested at an airport in
Cotonou last week and detained at the request of the Nigerian government.
His lawyers requested the release of his wife on the grounds
that she had committed no offence against the Nigerian state.
On Thursday, the court answered the prayers and ordered her
release and a return of her passport. Igboho was taken to detention, where he
has been up until Monday.
The charges against the Yoruba Nation activist border on
arms smuggling, inciting violence, and calling for a secession of the Yoruba
from the Nigerian state.
Igboho and his lawyers have denied all allegations levelled,
until the fresh allegations bordering on illegal entry and criminal association
was presented before the third judge in court on Monday.
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