The National Legal Adviser at African Action Congress, Mr. Inibehe Effiong, has said that human rights activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, was arrested because he was planning a protest.
Sowore was AAC’s presidential candidate in the February 2019 General Elections.
Effiong condemned the arrest of his client’s presidential candidate.
Men of the Department of State Services had stormed Sowore’s Lagos home in the early hours of Saturday, in what observers believe was 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..
AAC Finally Breaks Silence On Sowore's Arrest
August 03, 2019
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