…says he fears for his life.
Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin has raised an alarm over President Bola Tinubu’s plan to have him flown back to Nigeria from Ghana in cuffs. He called for protection from human rights groups around the world.
Hundeyin is the author of some devastating exposés of the Nigerian President, especially his long-read ‘Bola Ahmed Tinubu: From Drug Lord To Presidential Candidate’ which documented Tinubu’s drug trafficking saga and ‘Has Bola Ahmed Tinubu Committed Perjury? The Evidence Says Yes’, where he revealed that Tinubu forged his university certificate.
Earlier this month, the FBI announced plans to make public 2,500 documents related to Tinubu in its database in trenches starting October as requested by Hundeyin in collaboration with a U.S. anti-corruption agency, PlainSite
The Nigerian government has accused him of aiding terrorism and of treason and is planning an illegal repatriation from Ghana to Nigeria by force, Hundeyin says.
He said the plot was because he leaked a secret document that detailed how Tinubu, who is also the chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, illegally deployed the Nigerian military to invade Niger following the July military coup in the country.
A public appeal to Ghanaian president @NAkufoAddo, the Ghanaian Ministry of Interior and the Ghana Refugee Board. pic.twitter.com/unpyK0u9Se
— David Hundeyin (@DavidHundeyin) September 20, 2023
“If I step foot in Nigeria, I am going to die. That’s a fact. I will die,” the fugitive journalist said in an interview, appealing to the Ghanaian government to resist Tinubu’s pressure to have him repatriated.
Hundeyin has been careful to hide his location from the public since fleeing Nigeria in 2020 for fear of political persecution but an unfortunate incident with the Zimbabwean authorities in July exposed that he is resident in Ghana. An exposure that has led to his manhunt by President Tinubu to settle a long-standing score.
The Nigerian government has a long history of clamping down on dissent voices. The leader of the Biafran secessionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu is still held hostage since June 2021 when he was arrested and illegally extradited from Kenya.
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