After arresting him, at the court premises, the security operatives insisted that he must go with them to the Federal Capital Territory Police Command.
The operatives of the Nigerian Police have arrested former presidential candidate of African Action Congress, AAC, political activist and publisher of SaharaReporters Omoyele Sowore, was on Thursday.
The according to sources Sowore was arrested within the premises of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The policemen arrested him shortly after he appeared in solidarity with the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
Recall that Sowore has been at the forefront of calls for release of Kanu from detention.
On Monday, October 20, Sowore convened a nationwide protest tagged #FreeNnamdiKanuNow.
After arresting him, at the court premises, the security operatives insisted that he must go with them to the Federal Capital Territory Police Command.
When asked what his offence was, one of the officers explained that they were acting on the instruction of the Commissioner of Police.
“The Commissioner of Police said we should bring you to the office,” the Punch quoted the officer to have said.
Although Sowore queried the absence of a formal letter of invitation, he maintained that his lawyer must accompany him before he was eventually taken away in a police van.
Confirming Sowore’s arrest in a post via his X handle, human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, described the move as “preposterous”
He wrote, “The arrest of Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja moments ago is preposterous.
“The police and the Tinubu regime are making a mockery of our judicial system. He should be freed immediately. Stop the shenanigans.”
Recall that during the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest, Kanu’s lawyer Aloy Ejimakor, his brother, Emmanuel Kanu, and ten others were arrested and subsequently remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre.
In the First Information Report filed before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Kuje, the police alleged that the defendants, during the #FreeNnamdiKanu protest — which it said was held in defiance of a court order — chanted war songs and disrupted the free flow of traffic in Abuja.
The police further alleged that they engaged in criminal conspiracy, incited disturbance, and caused a breach of public peace. Offences, the police said is punishable under Sections 152, 114 and 113 of the Penal Code Law.
The report read, “That on the 20th day of October 2025, you (1) Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, (2) Prince Emmanuel Kanu, (3) Joshua Emmanuel, (4) Bishop Wilson Anyalewechi, (5) Barrister Okere Kingdom Nnamdi, (6) Clinton Chimeneze, (7) Gabriel Joshua, (8) Isiaka Husseini, (9) Onyekachi Ferdinand, (10) Amadi Prince, (11) Edison Ojisom, and (12) Godwill Obiama, all male adults of the FCT, Abuja, were arrested by a team of security agents at various locations within the FCT for engaging in incitement, disturbance and breach of public peace in disobedience to a court order, thereby disrupting the free movement of citizens while chanting war songs and demanding the release of Nnamdi Kanu, who is undergoing lawful trial at the Federal High Court, in a manner that threatens national security.
“You thereby committed the aforementioned offences.”
The court has fixed Friday for the defendants to take their plea on the charge.