Mr Inibehe Effiong, the National Legal Adviser of the African Action Congress (AAC) has said publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, was arrested because he was planning a protest.
Sowore, AAC’s presidential candidate in the February 2019 General Elections, was on Saturday morning arrested by men of the Department of State Services (DSS), in what is believed to be an attempt to frustrate the revolutionary protests he had scheduled for Monday, August 5, across the nation.
Effiong, the Principal Counsel/Head of Chambers at Inibehe Effiong Chambers, in a series of Facebook posts, said that his client was arrested because of his ‘Revolution Now’ movement which seeks good governance.
He wrote, “Mr. Omoyele Sowore is currently in the custody of the SSS. His phones have been confiscated. This is a panic response from a decayed regime that is so sacred of its own shadow.
“Buhari’s despotism is now in full force. Nigerians are now preoccupied with the shenanigans of a morally bankrupt, economically backward and politically inept administration.
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“The SSS (sic), which is supposed to be actively involved in curtailing insecurity across Nigeria, has been turned into a tool of intimidation for a corrupt, clueless and incompetent government.
“Let it be known that this irresponsible and highly reckless action will not deter conscientious and enlightened Nigerians from fighting for a better country. The #RevolutionNow Movement has come to stay and no dictator can stop it.”
Continuing in another Facebook post, Mr. Effiong wrote: “General Buhari lost election in 2003 and led a massive protest. He lost in 2007 and didn’t go to sleep. When he lost again in 2011, his supporters went on riot, killing people and burning public and private properties.
“Sowore, a respected activist of decades, called for nationwide protests tagged #RevolutionNow, Buharists are saying it’s because he lost election.
“Sickening.
“I have said it before, if we depend on Buhari and his supporters to safeguard our “democracy” we will wake up one day to realise that Nigeria is totally gone.”