Detained Convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju has spoken to Nigerians from Kano Central Prison, where he is being detained over murder allegations.
Theophilus Agada, an associate of Adeyanju who visited him in prison on Christmas Day, said that the activist told him to tell Nigerians that he was in “good spirits”.
Agaba, who is also a social critic, however said, “he (Adeyanju) looks really emaciated, in all he is doing fine.”
He added that “I met him playing football with the inmates.”
Although he was arrested on November 28 in Abuja during a protest match to the police headquarters to demand police neutrality in the 2019 general election, he was later set free on bail on orders of a magistrate court on December 3.
However, Adeyanju was rearrested as he was emerging from the Keffi Prisons after police said a petition written by Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai was pending against him.
He was later granted bail and was released on December 6.
The police went ahead and rearrested him on December 13 over unresolved murder allegations against him in 2005, according to Buratai’s petition.
He was moved to Kano on December 18 and arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court on December 21.
The court remanded him in prison until February 2019 despite pleading a lack of jurisdiction to hear the case.
He has been in detention ever since.
Despite Adeyanju’s travails, Agada said “he wants Nigerians to be resilient until this despotic regime is voted out of power next February.
“In a nutshell, Deji is doing okay in prison and hopeful that freedom would come not only for him for Nigerians as a collective.”
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