By Innocent Anaba
Three Senior Advocates of Nigeria,  Lateef Fagbemi, Alex Izinyon and Akin Olujimi, Tuesday, described as illegal, any attempt to extradite Senator Buruji Kashamu.

Fagbemi, Izinyon and Olujimi, in a joint statement, said the United States and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, would be overstepping their bounds by attempting to extradite the senator.

They said “The US did not appeal against any of the two UK judgments in favour of our client.  The judgments therefore, remain binding on the US and Nigeria for ever.  Rather than appeal against those judgments, what the US did next was to latch on to the conducive atmosphere in Nigeria brewed by the political enemies of our client, who even though aware that the US had lost out twice in UK courts mounted unholy pressure on the former Attorney General to commence extradition proceedings against our client.

“He was therefore, forced to approach the courts in Nigeria for redress. Just as the English courts had ruled in his favour, four different courts in four different suits in Lagos and Abuja ruled in favour of the senator.”