Friday, August 8, 2025 - One of the presidential aspirants for the 2027 general elections, Peter Obi, has reacted to the arrest of former presidential candidate and activist, Omoyele Sowore.
Sowore was arrested on Thursday after he voluntarily
honoured an invitation at the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, Abuja.
Obi, writing on X, Friday morning, called for the immediate
release of the activist, wondering why the police would arrest a citizen who
voluntarily honoured an invitation.
Obi, who said he was deeply disturbed by the action of the
Nigerian law inforcement agencies, also pointed to the fact that the police had
not made any clear or credible charges against Sowore public.
He said the police action had further cast a troubling
shadow over the nature and motivation behind his detention.
“To detain a citizen who came of his own accord, without the
public disclosure of clear, lawful charges, is not only a miscarriage of
justice but an abuse of state power,” Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of
the Labour Party in 2023 said.
The former Anambra State governor warned that anything short
of releasing the activist would further weaken the public trust in the nation’s
law enforcement institutions.
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