Opeyemi Sowore, wife of the detained activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congres (AAC) and convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, has spoken out against the continued detention of her husband by Nigeria’s Department of State Services (DSS).
The activist’s wife said that the Nigerian government has found no evidence against him, hence, no grounds for his continued detention.
She said this during an interview on a US television show, Democracy Now!, video of which was shared on their YouTube channel. A United States attorney, Nani Jansen Reventlow, who is part of international team of attorneys representing Omoyele Sowore was also interviewed.
In the interview, Mrs. Sowore said: “There are no formal charges per se. He’s being investigated, so the courts gave the Nigerian government or the DSS the ability to hold him for 45 days to investigate — treason, possible treason and terrorism. They based it upon a meeting that he had with Nnamdi Kanu, who has an organization around Biafra. He met with him. Yele made it public. In fact, he disagrees with some of Nnamdi’s rhetoric, but he met with him. And Yele’s whole thing is bringing in everybody’s voices so that Nigeria can be a country for pretty much all of its citizens. So, that’s one of the things that they mentioned against them.
“They also mentioned he may have taken money from international countries, and he met them in Dubai. He has never been to Dubai before, which was an interesting statement on the Nigerian government’s part. And no money, basically, has been found with him. So, those were some of the things that they’ve mentioned and associated with him, but they basically have no grounds for holding him and haven’t found any evidence.”
Watch Mrs Sowore’s interview here: YouTube channel