The United States has warned President Muhammadu Buhari over the arrest of the human right activist and journalist, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant Olawale Bakare.
In a viral video, the United States Senator, Bob Menendez said is Sowore is not released, Nigeria will have no option than to face the consequences between her and the United States.
He continued that they will be watching the situation very closely this time.
He said, “As the laws observes, he was released by court orders, he should be released. He should be out of arms awake and we are watching.
We will begin to press and the consequence of anything happen to Mr Sowore will be far beyond if any harm that come to him, there will be consequences with our real with Nigeria,” he said
It should be recalled that the Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Friday morning re-arrested the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, and his co-defendant Olawale Bakare.
They are currently being detained at the DSS office in Abuja.
The DSS is yet to disclose the reason for the re-arrest.
Sowore was re-arrested following an earlier attempt by DSS operatives to arrest him inside the courtroom of a Federal High Court in Abuja.
The re-arrest attempt turned rowdy inside the courtroom as Sowore’s supporters, legal team shielded him from the DSS operatives.
His re-arrest comes barely 24 hours after he was released alongside his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare.
They were released at exactly 7:15 pm on Thursday, hours after Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court in Abuja, had expressed displeasure over their continued detention by the agency.
Subsequently, Ojukwu ordered that the defendants be released within the next 24 hours and adjourned the case till Friday, December 6, for a report of compliance.
Sowore, a presidential candidate in the February 2019 elections, was arrested on August 3, just days to a planned protest tagged #revolutionnow against “bad governance” in the country.
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