A former minister of Solid Minerals and Education, Oby Ezekwesili has condemned the arrest of the Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 presidential election, Mr. Omowole Sowore, by the operatives of the Department of State Services.
Sowore’s online publishing outfit, Sahara Reporters, broke the news.
According to the online medium, DSS operatives arrested Sowore in the early hours of Saturday at about 1.25 a.m.in his apartment.
Reacting on her Twitter handle on Saturday, Ezekwesili said “Hmmmm.
@AsoRock ought to know that they cannot sustain this unconstitutional habit of repression against #CitizensRights.
All these persistent acts of @NGRPresident to shrink the Public Space with rabid level of intolerance for dissension will surely fail.
#FreeSoworeNow!
If our @NGRPresident @MBuhari & FG @AsoRock are not completely out of touch with the reality of distress of majority of Citizens of this country, they would handle @YeleSowore ‘s right to convene #RevolutionNow wisely.
Many of us his fellow #OfficeOfTheCitizen stand with him. https://t.co/2SZwrz08Zl
All well-meaning Nigerians should stand with @YeleSowore and defend his constitutional right and freedom to protest any matter of Governance that worries him.
Mr Sowore’s convening of Citizens to protest Poor Governance – via #RevolutionNow- is Constitutionally guaranteed.
I therefore join the voices of all well-meaning Nigerians to ask @AsoRock @NGRPresident @MBuhari to:
#FreeSoworeNow!
#FreeSoworeNow!!
#FreeSoworeNow!!!
#FreeSoworeNow!!!!
#DefendCitizenSoworesRight to Speech and Protest captioned
#RevolutionNow!
#IStandWithYeleSowore. ✍?✍? ”
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