Opeyemi, who spoke on Democracy Now, a news programme in the United States, said her husband is being investigated for treason and there are no formal charges against him.

She said, “There are no formal charges per say, he is just being investigated for possible treason and terrorism. They based it upon a meeting that he had with Nnamdi Kanu, who has an organisation about Biafra. The two of them met and Yele made it public. In fact, he disagrees with some of Nnamdi Kanu’s rhetoric. Yele’s own thing was to bring in everybody’s voices so that Nigeria can be a country for pretty much all of its citizen. They also mentioned that he may have taken money from international countries and that he met some of them in Dubai but he has never been to Dubai before. No money basically has been found with him. So, those are the things that they’ve mentioned and associated with him but they basically have no ground for holding him and haven’t found any evidence.”