During the period that Adeyinka Shoyemi, popularly known as Adeyinka Grandson, consistently made hateful comments on various social media platforms, inciting ethnic hatred in Nigeria, he was also grappling with a convoluted web of dreary family and immigration troubles.
Mr Shoyemi, who is currently serving a four-and-a-half-year jail term, was sentenced by Southwark Crown Court in Central London, the United Kingdom, in April 2022, for encouraging racial hatred and violence in Nigeria using inflammatory messages via his social media posts.
Before then, an Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber) had ordered his deportation to Nigeria after overstaying in the UK and due to his inability to prove that he had any family life in the UK.
Mr Shoyemi, a self-styled Yoruba nation agitator, moved to the UK in 2007 on a visitor’s visa. His partner at the time (now ex-wife) was also in the UK on the same type of visa.
By October of the same year,…
