Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has threatened to storm the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police command if Aloy Ejimakor, counsel to the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, is not released.
This comes after the police arrested Ejimakor, during the #FreeNnamdiKanuProtest on Monday in Abuja.
Ejimakor, along with Fineboy Kanu ; a relative of the IPOB leader; and several others, were reportedly apprehended by officers of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command during the protest on Monday.
Reacting, Sowore took to his verified X account on Monday to condemn the action, warning the police against what he described as an illegal detention.
“The FCT Police is instructed to release Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, Fineboy Kanu, and others illegally arrested, tortured, and currently being forced into detention over #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest immediately, or we will mobilize the entire crew now on the street to the FCT command and occupy their office,” he wrote.
News360 Info reports that Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, earlier called on legal regulatory bodies in Nigeria to sanction Ejimakor for participating in the ongoing #FreeNnamdiKanu protest.
Onanuga said Ejimakor’s participation in the protest undermines legal ethics, given that Kanu’s case is still before a competent court.
He said, “I spotted Aloy Ejimakor, one of Nnamdi Kanu’s lawyers, among the small group of protesters mobilised in Abuja by Omoyele Sowore,” Onanuga wrote.
“I wonder what Mr. Ejimakor was thinking when he decided to join this shambolic protest. As a lawyer, he should be aware of the principle of sub judice, particularly in relation to the ongoing treason case before the court.”
