The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has described a recent statement credited to the Federal Government that its leader Sheikh IBRAHIM EL-ZAKZAKY had wanted to seek asylum in India before his repatriation as part of a campaign of calumny by the government to cover its own gross misconduct in a foreign land.

This was made known in a press statement issued to newsmen yesterday by IBRAHIM MUSA, president Media Forum of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.

IMN further accused the federal government of mischievously going beyond its role of supervision to the level of maliciously interfering in the medical process, instructing on which doctors the Sheikh and his wife must see.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh IBRAHIM EL-ZAKZAKY has said that he was never in actual detention in Nigeria in the last couple of years.

In a video on Youtube, the IMN leader said that he and his wife had been living large, being in a well furnished house and allowed to move freely inside the house without security presence.

He said the only security presence were outside the building and at the gate, adding that the only time he felt imprisoned was at the Indian hospital.

The video was recorded while he was on his aborted medical trip to Medanta Hospital in the Indian capital of New Delhi.