The man declared wanted by the Police authorities, Andrew Wynne, over allegations of terrorism and for financing the recent nationwide protest with the intent to overthrow the government of President Bola Tinubu has opened up on the allegation saying that he was ready to dialogue with the police.
In a recent interview with Channels Television, Wynne denied that he has multiple names as indicated by police saying that he only answers a nick name.
“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. 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,”
He expressed his readiness to dialogue with the police and is also prepared to be in London to discuss with the Nigeria’s High Commission on the matter.
The man who is married to a Nigerian expressed the shock that he has been operating his bookshop in Abuja for the past seven years and that the security forces had no interest in him.
“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 discuss on WhatsApp or Zoom, and 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.
The Nigerian wife of the Briton also spoke to Channels Television exclusively, saying that her husband is being accused falsely.
The wife said that the reason for her husband’s ordeal is far from the allegation of toppling the government being leveled against him by the police.
She accused a Nigerian, 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 owes him and is not ready to pay him, she said.
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 the 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 the twenty-something of September.
