Activist politician, Omoyele Sowore, has described his trial at the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court as a politically scripted trial by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Sowore said the trial was a confirmation of his remarks
about President Bola Tinubu which led to his prosecution.
Justice M. G. Umar had granted Sowore bail on self
recognition despite prayers by the prosecution and META to have him detained.
Reacting, Sowore posted on X: “Today, the politically
scripted trial concocted by the lawless Department of State Services
@OfficialDSSNG resumed at the Federal High Court.
“The case before the court is nothing more than naked
retaliation for my truthful social media statements, where I described
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu exactly as his record and conduct reveal him to be:
a criminal, regardless of the propaganda deployed to mask it.
“In a scene befitting an authoritarian farce, the DSS
“prosecutor”, Akinlolu Kehinde, SAN, appeared in court pleading for my
detention, while attorneys representing @Facebook dutifully concurred with the
FGN prosecuting team.
“This was not because I committed any offence, but because
my voice threatens the @officialABAT regime. Their objective during today’s
arraignment was to cage dissent, soothe bruised egos, and manufacture the
illusion that criticism can be criminalized in Nigeria.
“Justice M. G. Umar, however, refused to perform in their
poorly written script. Seeing through the absurdity, he granted me bail on
self-recognizance, an unmistakable acknowledgment that this prosecution is an
assault on free expression and a cowardly attempt to silence a person
diametrically opposed to the failed regime; they didn’t even hide it; the
Prosecutor asked that the judge make me issue an undertaking not to incite the
public against Tinubu.
“I made my position unmistakably clear in open court, I will
not be silenced, and that I will continue to challenge rotten policies, expose
criminals in power, and speak truth to authority without apology.
“No security agency, no compromised prosecutor, and no
dictator masquerading as a president will ever intimidate me into silence.
“We are not backing down because Nigeria’s battered people
must be rescued, and we will fight for them, no matter how many sham charges or
fabricated trials are thrown our way. #RevolutionNow.”
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