Nigerians have come for Nigeria's Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
because of his silence following the impunity being showcased by men of
the Department of State Services who violently rearrested activist
Omoyele Sowore less than 24 hours after he was released.
The officials of DSS reportedly stormed the courtroom, causing
pandemonium at the court and physically assaulting Mr Sowore, forcing
the judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu to take cover in the courtroom.
Ojukwu had earlier ordered the SSS to release Sowore within 24
hours and also pay him N100,000 for improper legal conduct. The SSS then
released Mr Sowore only for him and his co-defendant to be violently
re-arrested.
Lambasting the Vice President, Nigerians questioned his job as a
Professor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria for allowing such
abuse of the judicial process.
See some reactions from Twitter below;
Activist and Social Commentator on Nigerian and international
affairs, Kayode Ogundamisi in a lengthy message written to President
Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo said the DSS act is an embarrassment
to those who support the government but ultimately a display of misuse
of power and lawlessness.
He said, “Dear President Buhari and Vice President Osinbajo.
Invading the court premises to re-arrest Sowore will go down as one of
the low points of this government, it is an embarrassment to those of us
who support the government but ultimately a display of misuse of power
and lawlessness, to the few sane people in government, it is your duty
to protest from within. It’s either you have 5th columnist within the
government or the government itself care less about the rule of law.
#FreeSowore and others now.”
@BhadmusAkeem said “Yele Sowore rearrested by The DSS. Muhammadu
Buhari & Yemi Osinbajo rode on the Anti Corruption & Regard for
Rule of Law platform to campaign & win 2015 election. I never knew a
day like this will come! 2023 is not that far sha! I hope Nigerians
will come together & act right”
@SamuelOgundipe said “When SSS attempted to break into the National
Assembly, Acting President Osinbajo fired its director-general within a
few hours. Today, SSS actually broke into a federal courtroom with
guns, traumatising judges and citizens. Sowore’s case has finally boxed
President Buhari in.”
@MONSIEURBLAC said, “If the Lagos NBA has any balls, they ought to rescind Osinbajo’s invitation to the Lagos NBA Dinner.”
@badniggafela said “Just a reminder. Vice President Osinbajo is a Senior Pastor and he’s also a SAN.”
@tonymourinho said “With the way Buhari and Osinbajo are running
this country, Just look at the Sowore incident today, you will know it’s
just a matter of time. I fear if we will get to 2023 as Nigeria.
#ThingsFallApart Falana”
@UnclePamilerin said “Academics Osinbajo can do Alots bro…. Mr
Buhari doesn’t need to give Academics Osinbajo the permission to
intervene in the DSS vs Osinbajo brouhaha. This is absolutely shitty”
@smartemuobor said “If i were Osinbajo i will resign, especially
when my constituent which I am supposed to be a Professor of is being
desecrated by my superior daily. According to @Mazigburugburu1 “If you
think that there is still a country, your mumu is anointed.”#Osinbajo
#Sowore”
@prayziz said “Lol Keyamo, Sagay and Osinbajo are clowns sha. I
hope people never forget the roles they played in legitimizing this
nonsense.”
@Alvinuzor said “The lowest of the tyrant Buhari is not with the
Vice President, Osinbajo issue but The DSS official holding Sowore down
in Court after interrupting court proceedings #ThingsFallApart indeed,
the center can not longer hold. No Democracy, no Rule of law and the
Judiciary is messy.”
@MrOdanz said “If Osinbajo dares say anything about DSS that he is
not authorized to say, he will stop receiving his Monthly
salary/allowance. Are Nigerians ready to pay him his wages? What are the
extents of Osinbajo’s powers pls? What can he do? He is not Atiku who
was a renowned Politician before being VP. He has no money. He has no
powerful family name. He is just Tinubu’s “lieutenant” in Aso Rock. What
can he do biko?”
@FeralJack_ said “Osibanjo cannot resign, the least he can do right
now is stand up to the DSS on how they’ve defiled the court of law.
Condemn their actions! Stand alone. I actually feel Osibanjo doesn’t
know the extent of his powers or he does but someone somewhere is
telling him to behave because of the grand plan
@TheAaronAlasa said “I wonder if Osinbajo can come back to UNILAG and teach constitutional law 🤡 the Morris
@Morris_Monye said “NBA is dead! I am hearing that they are even hosting Osinbajo in a few weeks.”
@OyindaSalaudeen said “We are really going to allow Falana to be
the only one speaking on behalf of the legal profession in Nigeria. NBA
is doing what ?
@YoungOtutu said “Sadly, amidst the lawlessness: The Vice
president, Osinbajo they say is a Prof of law. The President, Buhari
they say is a reformed democrat. The Judiciary they say is equal to the
executive. Nigeria they say is a democratic nation.”
@MrOdanz said “Buhari holds the keys to DSS jail, he decides who
goes in and out. He has Ahmad Lawal by his balls, the courts are under
his feet, Osinbajo is on his knees because he has no balls. Nigeria is
being held hostage by a dictator in turtleneck Kaftan.”
@nigeriasbest said “Hope….Tinubu, Fayemi, Fashola, Osinbajo are all
silent because they hope Buhari will handover to them. Elrufai is
silent because he hopes to inherit the type of tyrannical power that
Buhari possesses. At the end of the day, things could end in a flash
just like Abacha…”
@JiboyeToluwani said “You have disappointed your generation and the
coming one. I am a nobody yet and I know you all won’t send anyone to
arrest me, but one day I would stand out tall and say it to the world
that you failed.”
@OluniyiGates said “Unpopular opinion: Osinbajo is helpless too and
if he resigns, they’ll just replace him with someone worse. From his
own personal precedent when he was in control and sacked the DSS DG when
the DSS invaded the NASS, you can tell he doesn’t support his
principal’s actions.”
@UnclePamilerin said “Biko is Osinbajo the new DSS DG because of
all this insult, I’m not understanding. Have you forgotten we still have
a President, and Osinbajo cannot do anything without the President
Approval?
@Solar_unique said “The way some of you always drop the name of VP
Osinbajo anytime issues like this come up explains your ignorance. You
people don’t know the limit of the office of the VP in Nigeria? Have you
forgotten how he sacked the DG of DSS when he was acting President?
Kai.”
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