Nigerian opponent Hama Amadou is in France for a few days. Imprisoned since the announcement of the results of the first round of presidential elections in February last year, he received permission from the Nigerian judiciary to get out of prison to take the plane to Paris. Hama Amadou arrived in France on Wednesday morning, his entourage confirmed to us on Friday, April 9, to undergo a series of medical examinations at the American Hospital in Paris.
According to Hama Amadou’s communications adviser, Abdou Rafa, this medical check-up was planned for a long time. The former Prime Minister has been supervised for several years and has to carry out these checks every three months. But he was not there reproduced since April 2020.
It is for this reason that an application was submitted at the beginning of the week for a period of fifteen days, which can be renewed once. According to those around him, it is likely that his stay will indeed be extended due to his advanced state of fatigue.
By March 2016, Hama Amadou had already benefited from one such care condition of Nigerian justice, while he was preventively imprisoned in a case of human trafficking. At that time, he stayed for more than three years in France, then in Benin, before returning to his country in November 2019 to serve the sentence he had been sentenced to in the meantime.
This time it is not a question of exile, explains his entourage and his adviser, Hama Amadou, returns to his prison on his own at the end of his treatment. But in the meantime we were told, and if he wished, a request for provisional release could be lodged.
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