A renowned human rights activist and convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, has disclosed his intention to reunite with his family in the United States of America.
Sowore who made this known via his X handle on Friday, said despite his ordeal in the hands of the Buri regime, he would not back out in ensuring a leveler society.
The Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, who was persecuted by the immediate administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, for four years, was arrested in Lagos, for organizing the #RevolutionNow protest, shortly after the 2019 General Election.
“Later today, I will be returning to the U.S. after almost five years of my unlawful, unjust and inhumane detention by the corrupt Nigerian political system since August 2019.
”I was arrested, assaulted, tortured and detained for demanding that Nigerians deserve a nation that they can truly call their own. I was charged with treason – and after five years, the APC government was forced to withdraw its trumped-up charges against me,” Sowore said in a post on his social media.
It would be recalled that the activist was arrested on August 3, 2019, and later detained over his planned #RevolutionNow protest, and was later charged with treasonable felony by Buhari’s government.
He however added, ”If the government thought that keeping me detained and later restricting my movement would break my spirit and cause me to renounce my commitment to fighting for the downtrodden Nigerian people, they are mistaken,”
Sowore recalled how he was barred from seeing his family, how gunmen killed his brother and how his mother’s health deteriorated due to assaults from the Buhari regime.
”I stand today to declare that I am unbowed. My commitment to Nigeria is unshakable. My resolve to continue to fight for the betterment of the Nigerian nation and to demand accountability from her leaders will never be compromised,” he said.
Also speaking about corruption and rising inflation as Nigeria’s problems, the activist said he was still committed to the agitation of ensuring Nigeria regains her lost glory.
”For those who wonder what my next steps will be – I say this: I believe now, as I did over 30 years ago when I began this journey, that the vision of creating a just and egalitarian society must be established during my lifetime,” he added.
He however said his trip to reunite with his children and wife was only for a short while, stressing that he would return to the country to continue his struggle for the total liberation of the people from the shackles of the current corrupt, self-serving political class.
“I will also be returning to face headlong the remaining truckload of bogus criminal and civil cases that have been thrown at me since my detention in 2019,” he stated.
President Bola Tinubu’s administration had recently withdrawn the suit against Sowore.
While striking out the suit against him, the court asked the security agencies to release his seized international passport.
