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Adetutu Sobowale
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress and Convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, Mr Omoyele Sowore, arrived in Lagos State on Monday after he was arrested for three years by operatives of the Department of State Service.
Recall, Sowore was arrested by operatives of the DSS at midnight on August 3, 2019, for convening the #RevolutionNow protest slated for August 5 of the same year. He was later charged for treasonable felony among others and was released on December 24, 2019.
He was thereafter put under city arrest and was not allowed to leave the Federal Capital Territory until a Court of Appeal in Abuja lifted the movement restriction within the country on April 13, this year.
PLATFORM TIMES reports that the presidential candidate is still restricted by a court order from traveling out of the country, as his passport was seized.
PLATFORM TIMES also gathered that Sowore arrived Lagos to attend the 13th Memorial Lecture of late human rights lawyer and activist, Gani Fawehinmi, as a guest speake at the 13th memorial to the celebrated lawyer and activist, Fawehinmi, who died September 5, 2009. The event holds in the Ikeja area of Lagos today.
Fawehinmi became a SAN in September, 2001 and was awarded the Senior Advocate of Masses in Obafemi Awolowo University in 1988, among other international awards.
In the course of his activism, Fawehinmi was arrested and jailed serval times by successive governments under the military rule.
Others who would be at the Monday programme include the Chairman, Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran; the General Secretary of the Federation of Informal Workers Organisation of Nigeria, Gbenga Komolafe and others.
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