Uju Anya, the Nigerian-Trinidadian-American professor of applied linguistics who wished dying Queen Elizabeth II ‘excruciating pain’, claimed that her life was under threat.

In an interview published on Wednesday, she told the PUNCH, that people making false statements in her name were trying to put her in harm’s way.

“I feel like my life is in danger,” she was quoted to have said.

“I don’t feel safe anymore because of these lies being peddled around against me. I left Facebook four years ago. I don’t have a Facebook account. People are putting out fake statements, saying I am a member and financier of IPOB or Independent Biafra or any political candidate like that, and they are using a fake Facebook account that bears my name. It is a lie. There is nothing like that. 

“It is urgent that the world knows that these people are trying to put me in harm’s way. Nothing that anybody sees with my name on Facebook is true. I am not a member of IPOB. 

“They are using me for political movements and messages that I do not align with, and they are seriously damaging me and my safety. 

“This is going to be a huge problem for me. What if the Nigerian government considers me a terrorist and wants to arrest me? They are putting my life in danger.” 

Anya teaches at the Department of Modern Languages in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. 

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On learning that Elizabeth II was dying on Thursday, she had tweeted: 

“I heard the chief monarch of a thieving raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating.”