Igboho is a businessman not a terrorist, lawyer replies FG

The Yoruba activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has denied the allegation levelled against him by the Federal Government, linking him with sponsors of terrorism, saying he is a businessman.

Speaking through his lead counsel, Chief Yomi Alliyu (SAN), Igboho said they are just looking for a way to give a dog a bad name just to hang him.

According to a statement signed by Alliyu (SAN), “our attention has been drawn to a text press conference by the Hon Attorney General and Minister of Finance wherein he fruitlessly tried to paint our client and those patronising his car trade as terrorists and/or financiers of terrorists.

“I have gone through the text. Sunday was alleged to have transferred the sum of #12.7m to Abbal Bako & Sons owned by Abdullahi Umar.

“Transferring money to bureau de change to buy dollars is what is done by every businessman of our client’s calibre. Thank God that his passports and various bills of ladings were carted away by DSS during the ungodly invasion of July 1, 2021.

“Thus, so far there is no evidence of receipt of money from Abbal Bako & Sons or Abdullahi Umar going by the text conference. What the Hon. AGF stated are mere conjectures. Not a hard fact. Our client according to him paid Umar and NOT vice versa thus believing what the Honourable Attorney General of Federation earlier said that Chief Sunday Adeyemo is being financed by people.

“The picture the Learned AGF wanted to paint is that our client is being financed by Abdullah Umar allegedly involved in terrorist-financing. Who is now financing whom? Again, Chief Adeyemo is a car dealer trading in the name of Adesun International Concept Ltd. Does it mean that anybody buying a car from him or selling the car to him is a terrorist?

“Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Igboho Oosa was not into Oodua Nation until last year. So finding over N273m turnover between October 2013 and September 2020 shows that he was not a poor man. His house invaded by DSS on July 1, 2020 is worth over N2billion!

“I challenge the Hon AGF to mention the lawmaker that sent money to Chief Sunday Adeyemo for terrorist act whether he would not be damnified in exemplary damages for defamation. Up till date our client has not been prosecuted or found liable for any criminal act or terrorism. There is also a valid and subsisting court judgment that agitation for self-determination is not an act of
terrorism but fundamental human neighbour any citizen.

“My Learned brother Silk and Hon AGF knows that suspicion no matter how great cannot grant conviction. Chief Sunday Adeyemo is not a terrorist but a campaigner for self-determination,” Alliyu concluded.

Courtesy (excluding headline) Daily Independent