Nobel laureate Professor, Wole Soyinka, and a former Kaduna Senator Shehu Sani , on Wednesday, February 12, are in solidarity with the convener of #RevolutionNow Protest, Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court, Abuja, the nation’s capital where a damages of N200, 000 naira was awarded against the DSS for Sowore.
Also, the former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Professor Chidi Odinkalu and popular activist Deji Adeyanju, are in court in solidarity with Sowore whose trial resumes today.
Omoyele Sowore and co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, are facing trial over charges of a treasonable felony for organising the revolution now protest on August 5, 2019, which the government saw as an attempt to disrupt peace in the country.
The trial was stalled on Tuesday due to the absence of the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu. It was subsequently adjourned till February 12.
Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019, by the Department of State Services (DSS) and was in custody until December 24, 2019, when he was eventually released on the orders of the Attorney General of the Federation who directed the DSS to comply with the orders of the court which granted him bail.
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