Take-It-Back Movement Plans Solidarity March In Abuja Over Nigerian Government’s ‘Trumped-Up Charges’ Against SoworeSowore was the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in 2019 and 2023.
Human rights and pro-democracy group, Take-It-Back Movement says it has scheduled a solidarity march for activist Omoyele Sowore over the trumped-up charges of treason brought against him by the Nigerian government.A Federal High Court in Abuja in 2019, restricted Sowore’s movement to Abuja as part of the bail conditions granted to him in his trial on charges of treasonable felony.
The Attorney-General of the Federation’s office had filed the charges against him after the State Security Service arrested him for calling for a nationwide #RevolutionNow protest against then President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in August 2019.He and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, who was arrested by the DSS in Osogbo, Osun State, pleaded not guilty to the charges, and were subsequently granted bail on terms and conditions they described as “stringent”.