President Bola Tinubu has dispatched a high-level delegation to London to negotiate the possible transfer of former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu to Nigeria to serve the remainder of his prison sentence.
Ekweremadu has been incarcerated in the United Kingdom since March 2023.
The delegation, which included the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, and the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, met with officials from the UK Ministry of Justice. They were later received at the Nigerian High Commission in London by Acting High Commissioner Ambassador Mohammed Maidugu.
According to the spokesman for the Foreign Affairs Minister, Alkasim AbdulKadir, consultations with UK authorities are ongoing, and a formal request for a prisoner transfer has been submitted. AbdulKadir noted that an appeal has been made for Ekweremadu to serve the remainder of his term in Nigeria.
