Marking the third year Olajide was murdered in cold blood by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Benin City, Edo State capital, Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, on Wednesday said that his younger brother was killed by agents of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s “regime”.
Human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, has decried the failure of the Nigerian government to bring the killers of his younger brother, Felix Olajide Sowore, to justice after three years.
Marking the third year Olajide was murdered in cold blood by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Benin City, Edo State capital, Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 and 2023 general elections, on Wednesday said that his younger brother was killed by agents of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s “regime”.
Sowore said that three years after Olajide was killed, his murder remains unsolved because he was killed by those who should have brought his killers to justice.
On Wednesday, Sowore in a post on X wrote, “Today, I remember my lovely, enthusiastic and hardworking brother Felix Olajide Sowore, who was murdered by agents of the Nigerian state on September 4th 2021, on his way from school near Benin City.
“His murder remains unsolved because he was killed by those who should have done so, agents of the Muhammadu Buhari regime. May his soul continue to torment his killers!”
Today, I remember my lovely, enthusiastic and hardworking brother Felix Olajide Sowore, who was murdered by agents of the Nigerian state on September 4th 2021, on his way from school near Benin City.
His murder remains unsolved because he was killed by those who should have… pic.twitter.com/OWpJqnYOf2
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) September 4, 2024
Olajide, who was a student of Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, where he was studying Pharmacy was murdered in cold blood by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in the Okada area in the Ovia North-East Local government area of the State on September 4, 2021.
The Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki, while commiserating with the family of Sowore, had vowed that Olajide’s killers would be brought to justice.
Governor Obaseki had said in his condolence message to Sowore’s family that his government will make all efforts to bring the perpetrators of the dastardly act to justice.
However, exactly three years after he was killed, neither the Edo State government nor the former President Buhari and the current President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has taken any known action to bring Olajide’s killers to justice.