Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - A Briton, Andrew Wynne, who has been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force for allegedly plotting to overthrow a democratically elected government of President Bola Tinubu, has responded to the allegation against him.
In an interview with Channels Television on
Monday, September 2, the Briton, who denied any wrongdoing, said that he
is not on the run and is more than ready to speak to the Nigerian authorities.
“I am not aware that I am a fugitive, I am
not aware that I am running away from the law, I have been visiting Nigeria 25
years. I have had a bookshop at the NLC offices right at the centre of Abuja
for seven years and all that time, of course the security forces have paid no
interest in me.
I only have one nationality and the name on
my passport is Andrew Wynne with a nickname. I am more than happy to talk with
the police, I am more than happy to have a discussion on WhatsApp or Zoom, I am
more than happy to go to London and meet with officials from the Nigerian High
Commission. If they want to start a conversation then I think that is more than
adequate,” Wynne said.
Also speaking, his Nigerian wife said that
her husband is being accused falsely. She accused a Nigerian man, whom
she said owed her husband, of looking for ways to throw Wynne out of the
country to avoid paying his debt.
“We have been together for nine years,
eight years of friendship before we finally got married last year. My husband
is falsely accused, he has never been a terrorist. He is being accused because
one Mr Olumide is owing him and not ready to pay him. The case is in court even
now. So, he is just doing anything he can to intimidate and throw him out of
the country, He is in UK because he came in and at the expiring date of his
going back, he had to go back. If not for all these, he is supposed to be back maybe
around twenty something of September.”
The Federal government earlier today,
accused the Briton and a Nigerian of working towards the toppling of the Tinubu
government.
Addressing journalists in Abuja earlier on
Monday, the Force spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, accused the British national of
building a network of sleeper cells to cause chaos and topple the government of
the day.
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