Reference Daily News reports that Chief Yomi Aliu, SAN, Lawyer to the leader of the Yoruba Nation, Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho has affirmed that his client is only a businessman and not a terrorist.

Aliu is responding to statement made by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, alleging that Igboho is a terrorist who has been sponsoring some terrorist activities with his funds.

He made it clear that Igboho is a businessman, hence he does a lot of exchanges with money from Naira to Dollars for his business and not to sponsor alleged terrorism activity.

Aliu’s statement reads:

“Our attention has been drawn to a text press conference by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice 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 1st July, 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 hard fact.

“Our client according to him paid Umar and NOT vice versa thus belying 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 terrorists financing. Who is now financing who?

“Again, Chief Adeyemo is a car dealer trading in the name of Adesun International Concept Ltd. Does it mean that anybody buying car from him or selling 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 #273m turnover between October 2013 and September 2020 shows that he was not a poor man. His house
invaded by DSS on 1st July 2020 is worth over #2billion!

“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 judgement that agitation for self determination is not an act of terrorism but fundamental human right of any citizen.

“My Learned brother 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”. The statement added.