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Shehu Sani Speaks On Sowore’s Arrest By DSS

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A former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has condemned the arrest of the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 elections, Omoyele Sowore by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS).

Naija News had reported earlier that Sowore, a pro-democracy activist posted a tweet on his arrest at 1:25 am on Saturday, August 3.

Narrating his arrest in a social media post, Sowore’s driver, who refused to disclose his identity, said his principal was picked up in a “Gestapo manner” by the DSS.

According to the driver, “At around past 1 am, the armed men knocked on the door. I noticed immediately that these knocks were strange. And didn’t open. I looked and I saw men armed to the teeth,” he wrote.

“They started forcing their way in like armed robbers. But I knew they were DSS men, knowing fully well the attention RevolutionNow has garnered. Sowore wanted to open at first but I immediately told him who they are. He retreated and like magic, he was not in the room when they forced their way in- 8 of them.

“That was when he managed to tweet. By this time, I had been beaten and handcuffed. Phones were snatched from me. An order to block all exits came from the leader when Sowore was not found inside. He was later arrested at the gym in a Gestapomanner and dragged after a bit altercation.”

Reacting in a statement on Saturday, Shehu Sani said the federal government should be able to engage dissenting voices if it can sit to have coffee with bandits in search of peace.

“The arrest of Omoyele Sowore stands unreservedly condemned,” he said.

“Our Democracy has become a block of ice floating on warm waters. We are leapfrogging into totalitarianism.

“A nation that can sit and have a cup of coffee with bandits in the search for peace should not find it difficult to engage dissenting voices.

“It’s ironic for our nation to walk in the sun and be allergic to shadows. The voices of dissent are the heartbeats of democracy.

“Let not our prisons not be filled with those that speak but with those that kill.”

The former lawmaker accused the ruling elite of becoming intolerant of truths that had once served as the “moral chariots that validated their ascension to power”.

“The Government should defeat Sowore by beaming a bigger light than his and not by switching off his rays.

“Sowore should be released,” he said.