Danger Ahead-Nigerian, Lesbian Aderonke Apata Plans To Send Sex Tapes To British Govt. In Deportation Case

 Aderonke Apata is the voice of the Nigerian gay community in the United Kingdom and she says if she is deported back to Nigeria, she faces certain death from people who are anti-gay.



Nigeria's most vocal lesbian, Aderonke Apata, has vowed to fight on as she faces deportation from the United Kingdom back to Nigeria, as she seeks asylum.
Aderonke Apata, who fled to the UK some years ago for fears of being killed in Nigeria, after it was discovered that she is gay, feels she has tried everything to persuade the UK Home Office that she is a lesbian and that deporting her back to the country means a certain death.
She says she has sent letters from former girlfriends, both in Britain and Nigeria, and supporting statements from friends, all stating that she is gay.
But once her claim that she could be killed because of her sexuality if sent back to Nigeria was rejected, she feels there was only one way of providing a judge with irrefutable evidence that she was gay: by sending a sex tape that she recorded while having sex with a partner.
According to authoritative UK newspaper, Independent UK, Apata will hand in a petition to Theresa May, the Home Secretary, demanding that the deportation would lead to her death.
The Independent newspaper said that Apata, who is 47 years old, reveals the ordeal she has experienced:

I was asked to bring my supporting documents for my judicial review for the court to look at. What evidence do we have to compile apart from letters from people?

I have a video of myself and my girlfriend making love, so I thought why not just put it in? I cannot afford to go back to my county where I will be tortured, so if I have to prove it with a sexual video, then I have to do it.

I feel so bad it’s got to this stage. It’s such a desperate and precarious situation to be in, very dangerous, because anything could happen to those pictures, those videos.

I want sanctuary. I just want to be protected. I want to be who I am. I am a lesbian and I am proud of it.

Ms Apata said she is from a Christian but while she was in Nigeria, she got married to a Muslim man in what she says was a sham arrangement to cover up her long-term relationship with another woman.
According to her, her husband’s family turned against her when they suspected she was gay and took her to a sharia court, where she was sentenced to death for adultery. She says her girlfriend, brother and three-year-old son were killed in related vigilante incident.