A group, Democracy Vanguard, has said that the moving of #Revolution Coordinator, Omoyele Sowore’s case files from the Directorate of State Services to the attorney general’s office is a mere stopgap measure by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration to address the global embarrassment suffered due to the recent invasion of a courtroom by the secret security agency to re-arrest the activist.
Speaking exclusively with The Point at the weekend, the National Coordinator of Democracy Vanguard, Comrade Adeola Soetan, said it was the AGF who filed the case ab nitio and hired the prosecution team.
He insisted that nothing would change except “we continue to mount pressure on the regime to release Sowore and Bakare by filing a no case submission, because it is obvious with the DSS nonsensical tragicomedy after over 120 days of captivity of Sowore and Bakare, that there is no case to prove.
“As at today, the lead defence counsel, Femi Falana, SAN, told the world that they had yet to be served with any prosecution witnesses’ statements by the prosecution counsel.
“The whole joke is just to warn the citizens that tyranny has arrived fully by imposing a culture of fear and silence on the nation.
Soetan also commended The Punch Newspaper for its recent stand on President Buhari’s refusal to obey the rule of law, saying the newspaper had a tradition of taking a principled stand in a period of national moral crisis.
He said, “They did during the pro-democracy struggles against military regimes and during June 12 crisis. They suffered a lot, closure of their offices, seizure of their copies, waylaying of their circulation fans and harassment of their journalists and other staff members. They did also under Obasanjo and Jonathan governments by taking a known stand with the people against bad governance. Punch is very much in order to protest peacefully using the available media instrument within their reach and control. Its mileage is huge, one can see that government did not address issues of governance raised by Punch in their disjointed public statements issued separately by Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu.
“By the way, is Buhari not a retired major General? There is a popular saying that ‘once a general always a general.’ So, what is wrong in reminding Buhari that though he is an elected President, he is behaving now like a military general, who has no respect for rule of law, freedom and rights of the citizens and their democratic institutions?”
