- Safiu Kehinde
Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has warned of plan to organise fresh nationwide protest for the release of the embattled leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
This is coming barely 24 hours after the activist’s release from Kuje Prison.
NPO Reported that Sowore was, alongside Kanu’s lawyer, Aloy Ejimakor; brother of the secessionist leader, Prince Emmanuel Kanu, and 11 others, remanded in prison over last week’s #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest.
While Ejimakor and others were arrested during the protest, Sowore was apprehended shortly after meeting Kanu at the Federal High Court in Abuja last week Thursday.
He was arraigned before Kuje Magistrate Court which granted him bail.
After fulfilling the bail conditions, Sowore was yesterday released.
The 2023 African Action Congress (AAC) Presidential candidate had however resumed call for the release of Kanu.
Reacting to Kanu’s refusal to open his defense as directed by the court, Sowore, in a post shared on his X handle on Tuesday, maintained that the IPOB leader has no case to answer just as he had told the court at the resumption of his trial.
NPO Reported that Kanu, who has opted to defend himself after sacking his legal team, said that no Nigerian court have jurisdiction over his case as he never committed any of the alleged offenses in the country.
This, according to Sowore, exposed the rot in Nigeria’s legal and political system.
The activist warned of another nationwide #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest if the authority fails to do what is right.
“Now that Mazi @nnamdikanu has confronted the so-called Federal Government of Nigeria prosecutors with the simple truth that there are no valid charges for him to answer, the façade of this entire case has finally collapsed.
“The time to free @nnamdikanu is now. Continuing to hold him after such an admission only deepens the injustice and exposes the rot in Nigeria’s legal and political system.
“If the authorities refuse to do the right thing, the people will once again rise peacefully, lawfully, and decisively to demand justice. Another nationwide #FreeNnamdiKanuNow action is imminent.
“Freedom or nothing!” Sowore wrote.