Recall that on the 3rd of August, 2019, opposition leader, Comrade Omoyele Sowore was arrested, and kept in solitary confinement for five months.
The Take-It-Back Movement (TIB), a pro-democracy group, has called on well-meaning Nigerians and all lovers of freedom to speak up, and demand the immediate and unconditional end to the four-year illegal persecution of human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, by the Nigerian government.
Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow, was also the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), in the February 25 presidential election.
The TIB group in a statement issued on Friday by National Coordinator, Sanyaolu Juwon, regretted that like former President Muhammadu Buhari, President Bola Tinubu's administration had sustained the victimisation, and malicious prosecution of Sowore after four years with no clear intention.
Juwon said that for more than four years, Sowore had been held as a prisoner in Nigeria, unable to travel, visit his wife and children.
"Since this charade began in August, 2019, Sowore has been subjected to malicious prosecution, numerous persecutions, multiple arrests, detentions, and harassment.
"Recall that on the 3rd of August, 2019, opposition leader, Comrade Omoyele Sowore was arrested, and kept in solitary confinement for five months for standing up to misgovernance, and anti-people policies of the Buhari regime, and his political party, the All Progressives Congress."
Providing details of his illegal prosecution, Juwon explained that Sowore was released from solitary confinement on the 24th of December, 2019 after a global outcry, but kept under Abuja city arrest.
"Throughout his time under city arrest, Sowore has faced multiple arrests, harassments, and intimidation from the Nigerian state as he failed to compromise his unrepentant stance with the Nigerian people. With intensified advocacy, the regime freed him from Abuja city arrest in 2022 but kept him locked in Nigeria, unable to travel to see his family, wife, and children.
"Upon the emergence of Tinubu after a very flawed election in 2023, he has chosen to follow after the lawlessness of former President Buhari with the continuation of the charade.
"Since the sham trial began in 2019, two Federal High court judges have recused themselves from the case. With the third judge, Justice Emeke Nwite, the case has met nothing but stalemate. Like Buhari, Tinubu's administration is uninterested in prosecution, preferring to sustain the victimisation, and malicious prosecution of Mr. Sowore.
"As Sowore re-appears in court on the 5th of December, we call on you, and all lovers of freedom to speak up, and demand the immediate end to the four years persecution of Mr. Omoyele Sowore."