Yomi Aliiyu, counsel representing Sunday Igboho, a Yoruba nation campaigner, has refuted assertions made by the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, that Igboho is being backed by an unknown National Assembly member.
In a news conference on Friday, October 22, Malami claimed that Igboho is being funded by a member of the National Assembly. He did not, however, mention the lawmaker’s name.
Igboho asked Malami to name the politician who sponsored him in a statement posted by his lawyer, Yomi Alliyu, and questioned the attempt to link Igboho to Abdullahi Umar, a Bureau de Change operator linked to Boko Haram fundraising.
His statement read in part:
“The picture the AGF wanted to paint is that our client is being financed by Abdullah Umar, allegedly involved in terrorist financing. Who is now financing who?
Does it mean that anybody buying a car from him or selling a car to him is a terrorist? 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.”
Malami’s assertion has also been denied by members of the Pan Yoruba Group, Afenifere. The group claimed the recent assertions made by Malami revealed that the Federal Government is hell-bent on destroying Ighoho, according to a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Chief Sola Ebiseni.
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