Visiting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday held a closed door meeting with his compatriots living in South Africa as protesters demanded the release of a jailed opposition leader.
Buhari, on a three-day state visit to the country soon after xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals, is expected to release a statement following the closed door meeting.
A group of Nigerians protested outside the hotel where the meeting was being held, demanding to see Buhari.
According to the protestors, they would like to appeal to him to release jailed pro-democracy activist and failed presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore, who is in custody back in Nigeria.
Sowore pleaded not guilty at a court in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, on Monday to charges of treason, money laundering and allegedly harassing the President.
Sowore ran for president in the last Nigerian presidential election which Buhari won.
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