….Says era of recycling candidates over
By Chris Ochayi
A former Presidential candidate of Nigeria Community Movement Party, NCMP, in the 2019 presidential elections, Comrade Ademola Babatunde, has charged youths to firmly resist any attempt to foist mediocre or a recycled president on the country in the forthcoming 2023 presidential elections.
Comrade Babatunde, who gave the charge, while speaking as panelist during the 50th birthday symposium in honour of Omoleye Sowore in Abuja, said the country has had enough cases of bad leadership due to recycling and imposition of candidates and therefore continuing with such trend was unacceptable.
Babatunde, while advocating for paradigm shift in the electioneering process in the future elections, lamented that there system was crafted in such a way to favour a segment of the people in the country whereby their children were line up in different places of leadership to rule over children of the poor perpetually.
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By Ikechukwu Nnochiri Abuja
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Thursday, declined to revoke the bail it earlier granted to the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoleye Sowore, and his co-Defendant, Olawole Bakare.
However, the court, in a ruling by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, awarded a punitive cost of N150,000 against Bakare owing to his failure to appear for the continuation of their trial.
The ruling followed an application that was made by counsel to the Federal Government, Mr. Aminu Alilu, who came from the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice.
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Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the last general election and publisher of an online news outlet, Sahara Reporters, and Bakare, are answering to an amended two-count treasonable felony charge.
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Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, has ordered the Police, to hands off the case involving the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoleye Sowore.
Sowore, who is the publisher of the online news outlet, Sahara Reporters, was arrested on new year’s eve for leading a protest against bad governance in the country.
Sowore and four other activists, Juwon Sanyaolu, Peter Williams, Damilare Adenola and Emmanuel Bulus were subsequently arraigned before an Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Wuse Zone 2, who had other that they remained in custody.
Current reports, however, states that Mr Malami had earlier directed the police to handover the case-file to the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, at the Federal Ministry of Justice.
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri – Abuja
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Friday, rejected an application the Federal Government filed to be allowed to mask all the witnesses that are billed to testify against convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr Omoleye Sowore, and his co-Defendant, Olawole Bakare.
Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the last general election and Bakare are answering to an amended two-count treasonable felony charge.
The Defendants were alleged to have conspired to stage a revolution campaign on August 5, 2019, tagged “#Revolution Now”, aimed at removing President Muhammadu Buhari from office as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria during his term of office, otherwise than by constitutional means.