RevolutionNow: I didn't collect money from Nnamdi Kanu - Sowore tells court
- Omoyele Sowore has denied allegations that he received funding from the leader of the IPOB to topple the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari
- Sowore said he was never funded by external forces to organise the present administration
- The publisher also denied claims that he has visited Dubai or any country in the United Arab Emirates since he was born
The publisher of Sahara Reporters', Omoyele Sowore, has denied claims that he collected money from the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, to topple the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration
Sowore also denied allegation that he was being sponsored by some external forces to stage a #RevolutionNow protest across major cities in Nigeria.
The publisher turned activist and the presidential candidate for the African Action Congress (AAC) in the last election said although he met with Kanu in the United States of America, he never received funding from the IPOB leader to, wage war against President Buhari.
Sowore in a process filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja said, the allegations levelled against him by the State Security Services (SSS) is false.
He also denied claims that he visited Dubai or any country in the United Arab Emirates since he was born.
According to Sowore, the SSS did not know about the meeting with the IPOB leader until it was published on his online newspaper, Sahara Reporters' with pictorial evidence.
The publisher, in an affidavit by a lawyer of the Falana's chamber, Abubakar Marshal, said Sowore has never been involved in any terrorist activity.
He also stated that no evidence whatsoever links Sowore to any terrorist activity.
The affidavit read in parts: “That on Tuesday, 2nd July 2019 he met with Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, a British national in New York City, United States of America and at the end of the said meeting, they both issued a joint press statement."
"A copy of the said statement is hereto attached and marked EXHIBIT A. The Applicant/ Respondent did not know about the meeting until it was reported in Sahara Reporters, an online medium published by him," it said.
“That contrary to the deposition in Paragraph (vii-xi) of the counter-affidavit, there was nowhere in EXHIBIT SSS1 where he expressed a desire to launch any violent attack or topple any government in Nigeria."
“That is further response to paragraphs 4 (vii-xii) he did not plan a coup with anyone but he mobilized the Nigerian people including students and youths, workers, market women and other oppressed people to influence the federal government, the 36 state governments and 774 local governments to address the crises of corruption, maladministration, mismanagement of the economy and insecurity." Abubakar said in the affidavit.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the SSS said Sowore was arrested for reportedly making contacts with some foreign bodies with interests to destabilize the administration of President Buhari.
The SSS said he was arrested for threatening public safety, peaceful co-existence and social harmony in the country.
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