Mike Ozekhome, a senior advocate of Nigeria, has described the
fresh charges against Omoyele Sowore by the President Muhammadu
Buhari administration dead on arrival.
Ozekhome, who spoke on ChannelsTV, joined other well-meaning
Nigerians to ask the Nigerian government to drop charges against
Sowore and release him unconditionally.
Sowore, who has been in the detention of the Department of State
Services since August 3, was charged with a fresh seven-count
charge bordering on money laundering, treason, and cyberstalking
Buhari.
Speaking on the charges against Sowore, the senior advocate of
Nigeria said, “The government should end the case and save itself
from the odium and disparagement that its obvious loss will entail.
I see the case, as dead on arrival, it has no substance. It’s as
dead as dodo (an extinct bird).
“How does a peaceful demonstration and merely saying so, how
does it begin to form the serious crime of attempting to levy war
against the state or overrunning the president or government of a
state of members of the National Assembly to change their
policy?
“The DSS hasn’t told us that Sowore had a gun or any of them
were caught event with a banger.”
Ozekhome also asked the government to tackle issues raised by
Sowore as he posited that the Buhari-led administration is becoming
more paranoid and childish in prosecuting Sowore.
He said, “The government is becoming more and more paranoid, it
is carrying its anti-opponent template to a ridiculous and
ludicrous level that it is now becoming more and more very
childish.
“Sowore itemized the ills of the society, bad educational
system, youth unemployment, insecurity, bad and opaque governance
and said there is the need for this government to move away from it
and in attempting to do that he said, fellow Nigerians come to the
street and demonstrate.
“We should be more occupied about how to remove Nigeria from the
dolorous than this childish thing.
“Where are the arms that were caught with Sowore and others to
carry out a revolution?
“What are the means by which Sowore and his group were to carry
out this revolution?”
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