FG urged to prosecute Sowore, others over revolution call

The federal government has been urged not to be deal softly with the founder of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, and others connected with the call for revolution.

A group, Civil Rights Movement of Nigeria (CRMN), made the plea to the government at a press conference in Abuja on Monday following the arrest of Sowore.

The police had accused Sowore and the Global Coalition for Security and Democracy in Nigeria of trying to force a regime change in the country.

They said inciting Nigerians, home and abroad, to join a planned ‘revolution’ march against the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on Monday, August 5, amounted to treasonable felony and acts of terrorism.

Sowore, a pro-democracy activist and the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the last general elections, had been deluding a critical mass of Nigerians, through various platforms, in readiness for #RevolutionNow, a series of planned protests against the government.

However, according to CCRMNs president, Aaron Dutoye, the call was clear blueprint designed to overthrow the government.

CRMN further urged the DSS to secure a court order to keep Sowore in its custody “once he is arraigned given the gravity of the crime he has committed and the potential instability his release could pose.”

Dutoye said: “Clearly, there has been a coordinated campaign to intimidate law enforcement organisations from doing their job. This included describing Sowore’s arrest as kidnap or abduction. Influential Nigerians have been sold dummies and recruited to condemn his arrest without them referring to his crime. It is legitimate to demand for accountability government, but plotting to overthrow a legitimately elected government is certainly not something that any government in the world will accept.

“We are aware that Sowore is hoping to pass himself off as an opposition member even though he only scored 33,953 of the more than 28 million votes cast, less than the winner, President Muhammadu Buhari scored in one local government. We demand that the Department of State Services (DSS) immediately arraign Omoyele Sowore for treason to serve as deterrent to others with similar intentions.”

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