Drew Povey, a Briton accused of inciting insurrection by the Nigerian government, has urged the Nigerian government not to treat protests as treason.
Mr Povey, whom the Nigerian government said also bears the name Andrew Wynne, was reacting to the government’s allegation of building “a network of sleeper cells to topple” the Bola Tinubu administration “and plunge the nation into chaos.”
PREMIUM TIMES reported that the government had earlier raided and sealed his bookshop located at the Abuja headquarters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC).
On Monday, the government arraigned 10 Nigerians who participated in last month’s #EndBadGovernance protest in Abuja. Part of the charges against them was that they collaborated with the 70-year-old Briton, “with intent to destabilize Nigeria, called on the military to take over the government from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.”
In his statement written on the letterhead of his bookshop, Mr Povey asked the government…