Information reaching 247ureports.com indicates that the Convener of RevolutionNow protest, publisher of SaharaReporters and Presidential aspirant of AAC at the 2019 elections Mr. Omoyele Sowore has just been arrested by Nigeria’s secret police the Department of Security Services [DSS]. The arrest occurred shortly after midnight on Saturday.
Mr. Sowore was coordinating a national protest against the government of Buhari over the maladministration and insecurity in the country. He had promised to “shutdown” the country on the day of the protest – which he claims would hold simultaneously across the cities of the country. The nationwide protest is to hold August 5 [Monday]. The coordinators of the RevolutionNow protest claim to have already gotten twenty one [21] cities in Nigeria to sign up for the protest. And the social media had been awash with video recordings by notable Nigerian musicians have come out in support of the protest.
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It is believed Sowore’s arrest may be connected to his planned protest.
Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25 am just before his phone was confiscated from him.
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Sowore’s arrest comes amidst increasing spate of killings of Christian clerics in the south east and abduction of pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God by Fulani Herdsmen. The killings and abductions also comes after the killing of a daughter of a prominent Yoruba leader by suspected Fulani Herdsmen. These latest occurrences follows the rejection of RUGA by mainly the southern regions of Nigeria.
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