Nigerian government has applied to withdraw the treasonable felony charge that the former President Muhammadu Buhari-led government filed against a civil rights activist and convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, in 2019.
Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, in a letter dated February 14, which he wrote to the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, applied for the termination of further proceedings in the matter.
Sowore, who was the presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), in the last general election and the publisher of an online news outlet, Sahara Reporters, was arrested and arraigned before the court after he called for a nationwide protest against perceived maladministration by the Buhari-led government.
He was docked alongside his associate, Olawale Bakare aka Mandate.
Nigerian government alleged that Sowore, Bakare and others at large, had while under the eagis of Coalition for Revolution (CORE), sometimes in August 2019, in Abuja, Lagos and other parts of Nigeria, conspired amongst themselves to stage a revolution campaign on 5th day of August 2019 tagged #RevolutionNow, aimed at removing the President and Commander –in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria during his term of office otherwise than by constitutional means.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charge.