The Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed October 29 for the hearing of the suit filed by the police against Omoyele Sowore and other conveners of the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest held on October 20.
The suit, originally scheduled for October 20 for the
respondents in the ex parte motion to show cause why the interim order made by
the court should be vacated, could not proceed.
The hearing was stalled as a result of the protest, which
was held on the same day, crippling the court activities at the Federal High
Court in Abuja.
Justice Mohammed Umar had issued an interim order
restraining Sowore and others from protesting for the release of Nnamdi Kanu in
some sensitive areas in Abuja.
Justice Umar barred the protesters from demonstrating around
the Aso Rock Villa, National Assembly, Force Headquarters, Court of Appeal,
Eagle Square and Shehu Shagari Way, pending the hearing of the motion on
notice.
The judge also made an order of abridgement of time “within
which the respondents will respond to the application on notice to cause the
ex-parte order be set aside on Monday, the 20th of October, 2025 at 9.00am,”
before adjourning until Oct. 20 for hearing of the motion on notice.
The order followed the ex parte motion moved by the police
lawyer, Wisdom Madaki, on behalf of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (FRN), on
Friday.
The Police Force, in the ex parte motion, marked:
FHC/ABJ/CS/2202/2025, had sued Sowore, Sahara Reporters Ltd, and Sahara
Reporters’ Media Foundation as 1st to 3rd respondents.
The force also joined the Take It Back Movement, TIB, for
the Transformation of Nigeria, Or Any Form of Organization or Person (s) acting
with Either Express or Implied Instruction, or Any Other Organization or group
with a similar intention; and Unknown Persons as the 4th to 5th respondents,
respectively.
In the affidavit supporting the ex parte motion, Bassey
Ibithan, a police officer attached to the Directorate of Legal Services at
Force Headquarters, Abuja, averred that if not granted, the protest might
threaten national security.
Sowore had planned to organise the protest for the release
of Kanu, the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra,
IPOB.
The 2019 and 2023 presidential candidate of African Action
Congress, ACC, had mobilised for what he called a planned peaceful protest
against Kanu’s detention on October 20.
A number of persons were reported to have been arrested
during the protest, including Kanu’s special counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, who is
billed for arraignment on October 24 at a Kuje Magistrate Court in Abuja.
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