Alabi Quadri, a teenage boy who gained public attention during the 2023 election campaign for standing in front of Peter Obi’s convoy, has reportedly been wrongfully remanded in prison.
The news, which was disseminated online by a human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, stated that Alabi has been in the Kirikiri Minimum Security Custodial Centre in Lagos since January 2025.
According to a preliminary statement he released on X (Twitter), Inibehe disclosed that Alabi was abducted near his home by area boys and handed over to the police for refusing to settle them with some of the money he was gifted during the campaign period.
The police went on to charge Alabi, alongside four adult strangers, with conspiracy to commit armed robbery using cutlass, claiming N579,000 in cash and phones were stolen.
Alabi’s family has maintained that he has no connections with the fellow suspect or the alleged crime.
Despite being a minor, Alabi has now appeared in court three times and remains remanded with adults pending legal advice from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions.
Effiong, who visited the Apapa Magistrate Court and later the Kirikiri facility with Alabi’s mother and legal team, vowed to pursue every lawful means to secure the teenager’s freedom.
