Human rights and pro-democracy group, Take It Back Movement (TIB) has called for an immediate end to the persecution of activist, Omoyele Sowore. The group also urged the judiciary to end its collaboration with President Muhammadu Buhari, who was accused of using the courts, detentions and police attacks to persecute the candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections. It vowed to storm the Federal High Court in Abuja on June 5, 2023, when Sowore’s matter will again come up.
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has adjourned for judgment in the fundamental rights enforcement suits filed by human rights activist Omoyele Sowore to challenge his coordinated attack, arrest and illegal shooting at various times by the agents of the Nigeria Police. At the resumed hearing of the case Omoyele Sowore v. NPF & 3 Ors, on Wednesday before Justice Emeka Nwite, counsel for the police in both cases was absent in court and counsel for the Attorney-General of the Federation was absent too in one of the cases.