“He is being accused because one Mr. Olumide Inokunye (sic) owes him and is not willing to pay him. The case is still in court even now. So, he is just doing everything he can to intimidate and throw him out of the country.
“My husband is in the UK now. He came in at the expiry date of his (visa) and had to go back”, She said.
Also speaking on the programme, Wynne said he was not even aware he had been labelled a fugitive.
He declared that he couldn’t have been scheming to destabilise the leadership of a country that accommodated him for 25 years.
He said, “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 for 25 years and have had a bookshop in the NLC office right in the centre of Abuja for seven years. All that time, of course, the security forces have paid no interest in me.
“I have always had one nationality. The name on my passport is Andrew Wynne and I operate with a nickname. I think it really started as differentiating in the sense of the broad political education work that I do with the bookshop.
“I am more than happy to talk to the police and 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.”
The rebuttal comes a few hours after the Nigeria Police placed a N20m bounty on his head along with a Nigerian, Lucky Obiyan, who was described as an accomplice.
