I will die if deported back home, UK based Nigerian lesbian avers

Adejumoke Apata 

A 46 -year old Nigerian lesbian asylum seeker in the UK, Adejumoke Apata says she risks a death sentence if she is deported to Nigeria.

According to her, she fled Nigeria in 2004, claiming that her girlfriend, who refused to go with her, was brutally murdered by vigilantes in 2012.

Adejumoke Apata said she was subjected to homophobic torture, persecution and a brutal arrest after she was exposed as a gay woman. She averred that she was also sentenced to death by stoning for being a lesbian.

Adejumoke, who is facing deportation, doesn’t want to be deported and has started a campaign aimed at persuading people to sign a petition against her deportation.

“Returning to Nigeria is not an option for me, because as well as a death sentence hanging over me, I will face 14 years in prison due to the anti-gay law that was passed by the Nigerian Government in January 2014. I want to remain in the UK in order to contribute positively to the society and support my girlfriend, who I am now engaged to,” Adejumoke said in a YouTube video.