Chief Sunny Onuesoke, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to prominent Nigerian activists in persons of Professor Wole Soyinka and Femi Falana, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) among others, to add their voices in demanding for the unconditional release of human rights activist and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore.

Sowore, an activist and publisher of online news platform SaharaReporters, was arrested at his apartment in the early hours of Saturday by men suspected to be personnel of Department of State Security Service (DSS).

While addressing airport correspondents at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Onuesoke said both Soyinka and Falana are globally recognised in their efforts against the gagging of the struggle of true and freedom of democracy said “this is the time for both notable Nigerians to speak out against the incarceration of one of their own by the DSS if we want to achieve true democracy in Nigeria”.

Wondering what offence Sowore would have committed to warrant his arrest, the former Governorship aspirant reminded those behind his arrest that the incumbent president once participated in a protest, as his legitimate right in the aftermath 2007 general elections.

“Then no one sends security agents after him,” he recalled.

Calling for the immediate release of Sowore, the PDP Chieftain pointed out that the alleged repressive action of the government is partially responsible why many Nigerians show no interest in electioneering process of the country in the last general election, stressing that the percentage of Nigerians that participated or voted in the last general elections says it all.

If calling for a revolution is treasonable, at least 70% of Nigerians should be in jail. They have called for it at one point or the other, including those in government now and when they were out of government. I have read about all sorts of people trying to justify his arrest. But you cannot arrest someone calling for a protest in the anticipation that he will commit a crime.

“If things continue this way, Nigeria might be going from life support to the mortuary. Why is this kind of force not deployed against the rampaging cattle herders?” Onuesoke enquired.

https://www.independent.ng/rescue-sowore-from-dss-onuesoke-appeals-to-falana-soyinka/

Political suicide,Noone will support that.let sowore remains in Dss's custody for now.

#FreeSowore

How come Falana has not spoken this morning?

Buhari as I can remember has been on many protests in the past...

No one sent DSS after him...

Buhari is evil

Those who support him are worse than Ebola

Afonja good morning ooo. How una dey?

Abdul05:
Political suicide,Noone will support that.let sowore remains in Dss's custody for now.

Remain there for what exactly?

What is his crime?

Evil everywhere

Good men should rise up against tyranny now... Nigeria is on the brink

Ok

myfan:
#FreeSowore

Sowore lost election and turned himself to agent of insecurity. He will be with DSS for as long as the DSS wishes. Mind you, the DSS takes instructions from the President not from the Court so no Court can free Sowore. Also, the Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Asari Dokuboh Versus FG that national security supersedes human rights, so Sowore has lost his rights as human being for constituting himself into security risk

KidsNEXTdoor:
Buhari as I can remember has been on many protests in the past...

No one sent DSS after him...

Buhari is evil

Those who support him are worse than Ebola

Yes, Obasanjo only sent police to tear gas Buhari and Chuba Okadigbo leading to the death of Chuba Okadigbo

highcollide:
Afonja good morning ooo. How una dey?

We dey fine. Our bastard pikin that was going mad had been put in asylum and we are okay with that

Are u sure about this?

Printerscanner:


Yes, Obasanjo only sent police to tear gas Buhari and Chuba Okadigbo leading to the death of Chuba Okadigbo

Printerscanner:


We dey fine. Our bastard pikin that was going mad had been put in asylum and we are okay with that

Printerscanner:


Yes, Obasanjo only sent police to tear gas Buhari and Chuba Okadigbo leading to the death of Chuba Okadigbo

Don't throw stones in the market square... You don't know who it might hit
Remember that tomorrow is pregnant

Evil everywhere

But miss Laurette said the dss rescued him from himself ....sowore will remain in DSS custody and there is nothing no one can do about it. The APC sycophants who are among the youths here are even happy.

Printerscanner:


We dey fine. Our bastard pikin that was going mad had been put in asylum and we are okay with that

please be specific, is it abiola or awolowo?

highcollide:
please be specific, is it abiola or awolowo?

It's Abiola who could not count how many Igbo women he had kids with because they are cheap.

Heard hw has been released

KidsNEXTdoor:


Remain there for what exactly?

What is his crime?

Evil everywhere

Good men should rise up against tyranny now... Nigeria is on the brink

hisexcellency34:
How come Falana has not spoken this morning?

Didn't your mother tell you that it is bad manners to speak while eating?