Sowere has alleged that the verdict in Nnamdi Kanu’s trial was politically predetermined by the Tinubu administration, citing a public warning issued earlier in November.
On November 5th, 2025, I publicly warned that the verdict in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case had already been decided by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu regime. Today, they executed that script word for word.
For the avoidance of doubt, and based on credible information I received directly from… pic.twitter.com/xF4aGLkEqO
— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) November 20, 2025
On November 5th, 2025, I publicly warned that the verdict in Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s case had already been decided by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu regime. Today, they executed that script word for word.
For the avoidance of doubt, and based on credible information I received directly from individuals within the regime, this was my submission at the time:
“For the avoidance of doubt and to alert the public, it has become clear that a secret decision has long been reached within the @officialABAT regime regarding the fate of @MaziNnamdiKanu. The plan, devised through a high-level political conspiracy, is to either sentence him to death or condemn him to life imprisonment. This outcome, predetermined far in advance, is now being dressed up in the guise of judicial procedure.
Justice James Omotosho is expected to conclude Kanu’s trial by declaring that his refusal to open his defence amounts to an admission of guilt—a convenient interpretation designed to seal a verdict already agreed upon behind closed doors.
The ruling is anticipated this November, a month that bears a haunting historical precedent. It was in November 1995 that the military tribunal of General Sani Abacha sentenced Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists to death, a sentence carried out with ruthless precision.
Today, three decades later, Nigeria stands at the same moral crossroads. Only the year has changed; this is 2025, not 1995, but the machinery of repression grinds on.
The trial of Nnamdi Kanu has ceased to be about justice; it is now a test of conscience for the Nigerian state and its citizens alike.”
What we witnessed today was not justice, it was the execution of a political decision already taken long before the court sat, long before arguments were heard, and long before any evidence was considered.
Nigeria must decide what kind of nation it wants to be.
#FreeNnamdiKanuNow