PDP Speaks On Sowore’s Continued Detention As Publisher May Spend Christmas In DSS Custody

Omoyele Sowore

The Peoples Democratic Party and the Coalition of United Political Parties, on Friday, opposed the continued detention of the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and other suspects who have been granted bail by the court.

The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan and the CUPP spokesman, Mr. Imo Ugochinyere spoke in separate interviews with Punch in Abuja.

Ologbondiyan said, “We are also worried that critics and those who do not share the same view point with the same people in government are being incarcerated. We are concerned about our member in Kano State, Dan Dayita, who has not been released and has been denied accessed to his family.

Ugochinyere said, “The continued detention of Sowore is the highest affront to our constitution. It is a kind of military overthrow of the institution of democracy. It is obstruction of justice.”

Meanwhile, Sowore may spend the upcoming Christmas period in the detention of the Department of State Services. This is despite the announcement by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), on December 13, that he had taken over the prosecution of Sowore from the DSS.

The hope in the camp of Sowore, who is also the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, that he would be released from custody promptly with the AGF’s takeover of the case was dashed after the minister announced days later that he could not ask the DSS to release him from custody.

Sowore, who was re-arrested on December 6, within 24 hours of being released from detention that lasted over four months, has been detained by the DSS for two weeks without fresh charge instituted against him.

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