Tobi Adebayo
A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has appealed to the Benin Republic and Nigerian governments to release the wife of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Igboho, from detention.
Fani-Kayode made the appeal via Twitter on Wednesday.
He described the arrest of Igboho’s wife as barbaric and said that she was meant to be protected, not arrested and detained.
“This is the height of wickedness – to arrest and detain Sunday Igboho’s wife, Mama Ayomide, alongside him in Cotonou as they were about to board a plane to Germany. Up till now, the lady is still in detention. Even in war, women and children are meant to be protected and not targetted,” he tweeted.
“Only barbarians, terrorists, cowards, degenerates, reprobates, evil men and devil-worshippers do otherwise. Mrs Igboho has not been accused of anything and she has not broken any laws. Her ‘crime’, in the eyes of her tormentors, is simply being the wife of Sunday.
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“Leave her alone! Anything less would be cruel. I make this appeal to the authorities in both Cotonu and Nigeria.
“The women and children of those we perceive as being our adversaries should NEVER be targetted for death, destruction, incarceration, torture, persecution or humiliation,” he tweeted.
A court hearing on the extradition of Igboho would hold on Thursday in the Benin Republic.
