Sowore accused President Tinubu of double standards in pardons while rallying support for Nnamdi Kanu’s release.
Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has accused President Bola Tinubu of practising selective justice in the recent presidential pardons granted to convicted criminals while Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader Nnamdi Kanu remains in detention without conviction.
Addressing traders at Abuja’s Gudu market on Thursday ahead of a planned #FreeNnamdiKanuNow protest, Sowore said, “If anybody should know about criminality, it’s drug dealers and the President pardoned 53 of them last week…Meanwhile, our brother who was kidnapped from Kenya is still being made to face trial, even though he has not committed any crime.”
He stressed that the agitation was not ethnic-based but a fight for justice, noting that Nigerians across regions had joined the campaign. Sowore dismissed speculations about political motives, insisting, “If I wanted votes, I’d just go to INEC, buy them, win elections.”
He urged citizens to join a Monday protest from Unity Fountain to the Presidential Villa.