The Trial Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu remanded Sowore and
his co-defendant, Olawale Adebayo Bakare shortly after they pleaded not guilty
to a seven-count charge the Federal Government preferred against them. Though
the court initially asked the defendants to choose between Kuje and Suleja
prisons, Sowore’s lawyer, Mr. Olumide Fusika, SAN, prayed the court to allow
them to remain in the custody of the DSS till the next adjourned date.
Meanwhile, immediately he was being ushered out of
the courtroom, Sowore made a move to address the press, but was roughly dragged
away by DSS operatives. He, however, kept chanting and urging Nigerians to rise
against bad governance, as he was being whisked away by security agents amid
protest from some of his supporters that attended the proceeding.
Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of the
African Action Congress, AAC, in the last general election and publisher of an
online media platform, Sahara Reporters, has been in detention since August 2
when he was arrested for calling for a nationwide protest against perceived
maladministration by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government.
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