A Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital has granted the Department of State Security 45 days to detain Omoyele Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow.
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and founder of online news website, SaharaReporters was arrested at his home on 4 August 2019.
Sowore had called for a revolution against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari declaring it, “Day of Rage”.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in a ruling on Thursday on an ex-parte motion by the DSS, said he would allow the agency detain Sowore for 45 days in the first instance, which could be renewed upon and application, to enable the DSS complete its investigation.
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In the motion ex-parte brought by the DSS, under Section 27 of the Terrorism Prevention Act, the agency accused Sowore of engaging in terrorism Act.
It tendered two digital video disks (DVD), which contained recording of Sowore’s meeting with Nnamdi Kanu (of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra – IPOB) and an interview where Sowore was said to have boasted that members of the equally proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) were going to join forces with him to bring down the Nigerian government.
