Nigeria’s Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, is in the middle of a fresh plot to revoke the bail granted to human rights’ activists, Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, in the ongoing trial over the RevolutionNow struggle.
SaharaReporters learnt that Malami is being aided by the Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Bichi – both of whom are mounting pressure on one of Sowore’s sureties in order to revoke his bail, re-arrest and detain him.
SaharaReporters gathered that the surety under pressure had written to the human rights activists’ lawyer that he no longer wanted to be surety, which is part of the plot to get Sowore re-arrested and detained.
“He wrote to the lawyer that he no longer wants to be surety again. Malami is seriously pressuring one of the activists’ sureties to back out,” a top source stated.
But in his reaction to the situation, Sowore tweeted on Thursday, “Federal Judges retiring and returning Sowore case files in droves; meanwhile AGF Abubakar Malami and DG, DSS, Yusuf Bichi are shopping for pliable judges and putting pressure on one of my sureties so that they can revoke my bail, re-arrest and detain me.
“They’re scared! But they can’t escape the upcoming revolt of the massively oppressed people of Nigeria! #RevolutionNow #BuhariMustGo.”
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the trial involving Sowore, and Bakare suffered a setback at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The two men are being prosecuted for treasonable felony by the Attorney-General of the Federation’s office.
It had been reported that the presiding Judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, was transferred to Calabar, Cross River State and she informed the Chief Justice, Justice John Tsoho, that although she would continue with other cases, she would no longer preside over Sowore’s case.
This implies that the case marked, FHC/ABJ/CR/235/19, will have to start afresh for the second time.
This is just as two other judges refused to take up Sowore’s case due to its ‘sensitive nature.’
The Department of State Services (DSS) had arraigned Sowore and Bakare before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu for treasonable felony for organising the ‘Revolution Now’ protest on August 5, 2019, which the government desperately used security agents to clamp down on.
Justice Ojukwu subsequently ordered that Sowore and Bakare be released on bail but…
