The Minority caucus of the House of Representatives, has called for the release of political activist, Omoyele Sowere, in the spirit of Eid-el-Kabir celebration.
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The Lagos State Chapter of the African Alliance Congress said on Sunday that it would not recognise Leonard Nzenwa as the national chairman of the party.
Omoyele Sowore, Convener of #RevolutionNow protests, who is presently in detention, on Friday, approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking an order to vacate the ex parte order that gave the Department of State Service the legal backing to detain him for 45 days.
The APC made the allegation in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-Onliu
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The body condemned the Federal Government for disrupting the planned protest, saying it was not intended to upset its agenda.
The position of Afenifere was contained in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, on Thursday.
Sambo, in a statement, he personally signed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna disowned the Facebook account.
The detention order of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters was based on the request of the Department of State Services to further detain the convener of #RevolutionNow
The Nigeria Labour Congress has urged the Federal Government to release Omoyele Sowore and 26 other protesters arrested on account of the #RevolutionNow protest on Monday.
“The #RevolutionNow protest led by Omoyele Sowore. The security people grabbed him ahead of the August 5 protests, but the Grand Coalition for Security and Democracy still came out in full force in Lagos and Abuja.”
An Abuja Federal High Court will, on Thursday, rule in the application filed by the Department of State Service seeking an order to detain Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’s presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, for 90 days pending the conclusion of its investigation.
Nigerians have arrived at a stricture of no going back. The country, according to millions, is overripe for revolution. Out there on the streets, there is a huge sense of disillusion compounded by the daily killings of innocent Nigerians by bandits and terrorists known as Fulani herdsmen
The Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, has appealed to the Federal Government to release the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore.
IYA, a social-cultural youth organisation, gave the advice in a statement signed by its President General Ifeanyi Nwaudunna and Secretary General Casmir Nnadozie-Irekamba in Abuja on Monday.
He said: “2023 is the date Nigerians are waiting for change of baton of democratically elected government in the country.”
Sporting activities at the Kwara Stadium Complex, Ilorin in the early hours of Monday were put to a halt with the presence of heavily armed men of the Nigeria Police.
Heavily armed security operatives from the Police Command in Lagos, the Army and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have barricaded the entrance to the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos ahead of the #RevolutionNow protest spearheaded by Omoyele Sowore on Monday.
In a statement on Sunday, Soyinka said the arrest was “a travesty and violation of the fundamental rights of citizens to protest….”
The Department of State Services has called on Nigerians to disregard threat of revolution by Omoyele Sowore.