Antoeni: Sowore and other activists had held a procession to mark the New Year.
According to witnesses, they were almost done with the procession when security operatives rounded them up, and many were brutalised in the process.
A source reportedly said they were taken to Abattoir police station in Abuja, where they are being detained.
Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 election, was allegedly injured by the policemen who arrested him.
“Sowore was particularly singled out for torture by the security operatives, who gave him a bloodied nose before whisking him away,” a source reportedly said.
Earlier, Sowore had in a tweet called for the protest across the country.
“How about a CrossOver Protest/Uprising tonight? Anyone willing to participate? Pick up a candle and a placard showing your grievances against the regime, let’s upload our short videos and photos across our SOcial Media platforms. Let’s welcome the regime to a RESOLUTE 2021!” he tweeted.
How about a CrossOver Protest/Uprising tonight? Anyone willing to participate? Pick up a candle and a placard showing your grievances against the regime, let’s upload our short videos and photos across our SOcial Media platforms. Let’s welcome the regime to a RESOLUTE 2021!
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) December 31, 2020
Mariam Yusuf, police spokesperson for the federal capital territory (FCT), was not available to comment on the arrest.
In August 2019, Sowore was arrested by the Department of State Service (DSS) for planning a nationwide protest.
He spent 141 days in detention before he was eventually granted bail, with a condition restricting him from travelling out of Abuja.
Difrent: Stop this misinformation..... this is not an emir I take it you don't know the difference between emir and sardauna ,next time seek clarification except if course if you intended to be mischievous y
what is the difference between Emir and Sardauna? help me please what does sardauna mean?
Rugaria: But it doesn't work that way you know.. If you allow terrorists and radical religious elements to dominate your next door neighbors and domesticate their weird ideologies there, it's only a short time before you have those foundamentalist elements right there at your doorsteps! Many examples of this abound world wide! That's why you have to follow the isrealie model of inflicting pain and disaster on your sworn enemies at their homes before they invade you, truncate your cultural values and increase their nuisance value in your land! It's not vintage inventive politics for any igbo to go "biri ka mbiri" on this one! Every attempt should be made to ensure that the east shares no borders with people who believe in decapitation, amputations and conquest.. You fail to do this today, you will be forced to fight a war you're not interested in tomorrow... Religious radicals believe in the expansion of their tentacles.. We are sitting ducks in the east if we play lukewarm..
Difrent: Stop this misinformation..... this is not an emir I take it you don't know the difference between emir and sardauna ,next time seek clarification except if course if you intended to be mischievous y
what is the difference between Emir and Sardauna? help me please what does sardauna mean?
SilverNorGold: Although I am an avid supporter of President Buhari cos of his many stellar achievements, honesty and integrity, it's things like this that's making me not very happy with him. Why sit and watch wicked elements and fake news purveyors run this country aground? What's stopping him from declaring war on enemies of Nigeria and fake news merchants?
President Buhari is TOO SOFT for my liking.. If it were Obasanjo, Yaradua and Goodluck Jonathan, would criminal elements like Sowore, Aisha Yesufu and their cohorts dare attempt one quarter of the nonsense that President Mohammadu Buhari has tolerated from them?
This is sad.. President Buhari should do something to nip this nonsense in the bud as quickly as possible before it gets out of hand!
And by the way, what happened to the Social Media regulation bill? Seriously, I am not happy with the way things are going.. I just hope Nigeria survive the wrath of these fake news vicars before PMB comes up with a decisive solution.
May God help Nigeria.
You are the greatest victim of foolishness. you are criticising the social media that you are even using right now.
Igbochief001: Bros ogoni was never part of the original Niger Delta republic ...it was just all of ijaw ...the war was fought in far away bayelsa ..how did it concerns ogoni ...Bros obviously u don't know Niger Delta
YouAreFinished: Why do igbos celebrate this dude? Do you know that he deliberately refused international aid for his starving subjects so he could take pictures of hunger stricken igbos to gain sympathy. He willingly sacrificed 3 million (1/4th of then igbos) people for that purpose. He later wanted to be president of the same Nigeria he hated,but his people chosed a Fulani man instead. Lol
muykem: The man that led his people to war and ran away at peak of war. Later came back after the war, went to meet Buhari in Daura to pledge his support for one Nigeria. Summary of his life.
peacekante: The Governor was asked by Dele MOMODU if he is igbo and he gave a blunt reply. "I am not" . He later went on to clarify the misunderstanding about his name and also the ikwere people link to igbo.
this my governor's defense is an empty crap. at a point he denies Igboness and at another he accepts it. I am a Rivers man and I am igbo. The only sensible sense he made was reinstating the fact that being igbo does not connote that he should accept his fellow igbos to come and rain mayhem in his state. this is very correct assuming the igbos were actually responsible for all the problems.
KenOne: These people with ignorance. Proximity made Ikwerre to understand and speak Igbo, the Ikwerres and Igbo's over time have married each other so speaking Igbo does not make him Igbo.
So the Hausa woman in Enugu that was speaking Igbo is now an Igbo woman.
Or Tiv man from Benue, Igala or Okun man from Kogi and Berom man Platuea that speaks Hausa are they Hausa.
what truly make one Igbo and another non igbo because I am a Rivers State man too and I see myself as igbo too?
IkwerrePikin: Hahaha this people will not kill me!
Nnamdi Kanu wants to turn Rivers state to a war zone but we Rivers people can’t allow that.
Gov. Wike Is a very simple and honest man. He loves all tribes.
If Wike hated the Igbos and wants to kill them at Oyigbo, why is he not killing Igbos living in Port Harcourt and in his community?
Why did Wike appoint an Igbo man the commissioner for special duties (Gov's office) in the person of Hon. Onowu Anyasodike if he hated Igbos?
Only Rivers state voting strength of 1.5miliion plus Delta state 1.2million is more than 4 igbo states put together as seen in 2015,2019.
Wike development of Rivers state will speak for him. Mr. Project is doing very well and we support him.
He only made sure Rivers state is peaceful for the people of Rivers state and we are happy and support him.
Rivers state didn’t declare IPOB a terrorist organization, The Federal Govt did and with the crisis they caused in Oyigbo LGA if Wike doesn’t act, Rivers state will turn to a war zone with time.
All tribes are living peacefully and do their business in Rivers state.
[b]But don’t undermine our peaceful nature.
God bless Niger delta This your much vaunted Niger Delta, is it the same one that IMO and Abia States are part of or a different one?
datproject: If Jewish people died for Biafra, another eleven children died for Biafra, to make themselves sacrifices for the course of Biafra. Why couldn't you yourself made yourself sacrifice during the phyton dance, you choose to follow backdoor to escape instead to enjoy life. KANU is only giving us lame excuse why people who died in Nigeria during phyton dance should not be blamed on him because they die for Biafra . Stupid logic ! ! Non of your own family member sacrificed themselves, even your father ran away with you, your children and wife were put in secure place, the blood of any of your own family member is not good for Biafra sacrifice except the ignorant ipob touts who are dieing like fowls. Why can't Kanu himself die so that when Biafra is realized, streets and building can be named after him. Kanu, you are in Isreal today(...as you made us believe), ask them how God used Moses to bring them out of Egypt. During Python dance in Moses time, pharaoh, that represented Egypt called out magicians with different phytons in front of Moses, but Moses didn't run, his phyton swallowed Pharaoh own, but instead Kanu ran just because of lean pyton fro Nigeria millitary
the above position is empty. if he had allowed himself being killed extrajudicially, would you have continued the battle till this date . you would have been the first to mock him.
Johnnyessence: as we all will have election av come and gone, at the end the election of rivers state is unacceptable. in as much the election of rivers state that brought in wike as the governor last april has been cancelled by the court of justice. wike should be probe on the killings of the innocent citizens of rivers state in the last governorship election. wike is the blood sucking governor av ever seen, write it down today wike will be disgraced in the forthcoming election in next year february. God is against corruption, God is against shedding innocent blood. thank God that defeat the demonic party in which wike holds his ground. forget here oooooo peter-side will win the next governorship election coming up in february 2016 cos' the good people of rivers state will rally round with him. wike is a fraudster and should be jailed.
firstEVA: Any one who fights Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi is fighting God, the oil on his head is from the lord almighty. I advise those who are still nursing the idea to stop Amaechi's confirmation as minister to desist, they will meet their waterloo.
As Speaker of River State assembly, the then governor Peter Odili battled him and wanted him impeached, he was battled for 4 years, no one could impeach him, then the said governor and Obasanjo teamed up to prevent the anointed Ameachi from winning primaries to become governor of Rivers state. They suceeded in removing his name even when he won the primaries and substituted it with Omenhia. Omenhia won the election but the court kicked him out and installed the anointed Amaechi as Governor of Rivers State.
Then one fisherman's wife called Patience Jonathan decided to try God when she got power drunk, she decided to dictate the tune of Rivers state because her husband was president, to cut the long story short, today she and her husband are in Otuoke instead of Aso rock.
bolaino: I strongly urge the Leadership of the federal Republic of Nigeria, to take seriously the case against Mr Nnamdi Kanu. He should Be Tried for Treason and given the death sentence.If Need I can provide information that proves that he is working with foreign Intelligence. He truly deserves the death penalty. Long Live The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
I am a full fledged south southerner and probiafran , Edo is not a full fledge south south soil, it is just a worthless addition, they are neither needed in south south nor in Biafra land
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