Remand order: Release Sowore immediately – SERAP tells Nigerian Govt

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has urged the Federal Government to instantly merchandise the African Action Congress, AAC, statesmanlike candidate, Omoyele Sowore.

DAILY POST had earlier reported that Justice Mohammed Umar of the Abuja Federal High Court on Monday ordered Sowore’s remand astatine the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the determination of his exertion seeking a enactment of execution of an earlier bid revoking his bail.

Justice Umar besides struck retired an exertion seeking his recusal from the lawsuit implicit alleged bias.

Reacting to the improvement successful a connection signed by its Deputy Director, Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP asked the Federal Government to retreat each transgression defamation and cybercrime charges against Sowore.

According to SERAP, Sowore was being detained solely for peacefully exercising his cardinal rights.

“We are acrophobic astir the escalating crackdown connected the rights to state of expression, peaceful assembly, relation and media state and the flagrant disregard for the regularisation of instrumentality by Nigerian authorities,” SERA...