Nigerians in the United Kingdom under the aegis of Free Sowore Now
and the Take It Back Movement defied the freezing London weather
yesterday to demand the immediate release of the #RevolutionNow
convener, Omoyele Sowore, his co-defendant, Olawale Mandate, journalist
Agba Jalingo and other political detainees being held by the Department
of State Services (DSS) despite court orders.
The protesters, who stormed Abuja House, the official residence of
the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, around 10:40a.m.
and tarried for over two hours, chanted anti-Buhari songs and slogans,
flaying the president and his deputy “for trampling upon the rights of
the detained activists, including Sheik El-Zakzaky and his wife.”
With songs like, “solidarity forever, solidarity forever, solidarity
forever, we shall always ask for our rights,” and “ Sowore must be
free, Sowore must be free, Sowore, Sowore, Sowore must be free,” the
diasporean Nigerians accused President Muhammadu Buhari of turning
“Nigeria into a mockery of democracy by his disrespect for the rule of
law.”
Taking their turns, the cheerleaders asked the president, who is
currently in London on a private visit to the European nation for over a
week, to go back “home.”The convener, Gabriel Agbontaen, urged
Nigerians at home to embark on a “sit-in” solidarity protest “to make
the All Progressives Congress (APC) government realise that the country
cannot be cowed by its actions.”He also called on traditional leaders
and all “lovers of freedom, lovers of justice to come out and be
counted.”
Another cheerleader, Portsmouth-based Bunmi Olurin, enjoined the
president to let go of the detained activists who “have done nothing
wrong by asking for a better Nigeria.”Comrade Ayo Ogundimu, who also
addressed the gathering, re-chanted their slogan: “Freedom cometh by
struggle, freedom come by struggle and by struggle, freedom comes.”He
alleged that the United States and Britain were backing the ‘sordid’
development in the most populous black nation.
To Bukola Azeez, another cheerleader, she is disturbed by the decay
in the country, regretting that the leaders are impoverishing the
people, and thus wants a Nigeria that works. Christine Aluga craved a
better nation for herself and children, stating: “ That is why I am here
in the cold.”
Two Met police officers, who came around mid-noon, however told our
reporter that they were there to maintain law and order.Besides, the
Sowore family has appealed to the president, the 36 state governors,
lawmakers, human rights organisations as well as well-meaning Nigerians
to prevail on the secret police to release their son for the
preservation of the country’s democracy.
In a statement yesterday by Deacon Solomon Omoyeni, the family
lamented the continued incarceration of the presidential candidate of
the African Action Congress in the February 2019 poll in contravention
of an existing court order.According to him, the detainee believes in
the unity of the nation and would not want to destabilise a
democratically elected government.
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