ABUJA, Nigeria -                                               The former Vice-President of World Bank and Nigerian former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, has condemned the arrest of the Founder of Sahara Reporters/presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 general election, Mr. Omoyele Sowore.

Operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, had at early hour of Saturday, August 2, at about 1.25 a.m arrested Sowore in his apartment.

Taking to her verified Twitter handle @obyezeks on Saturday, Ezekwesili, also a presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria in the same election, said that the government “cannot sustain this unconstitutional habit of repression against #CitizensRights”, while calling on meaningful Nigerians to rally round Sowore.

Sowore had expressed the intention to spearhead nationwide protests against the Federal Government, tagged ‘#RevolutionNow Days of Rage,’ scheduled for Monday, August 5, 2019.

Late last month, precisely on July 31, Sowore was reportedly barred from delivering a lecture as the guest speaker at an event organised by the Muslim Students Society of Nigeria, University of Lagos chapter.

Sahara Reporters, reported that, “The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria, UNILAG branch, had invited Sowore as a guest speaker for an academic counselling seminar set to hold at the J.F. Ade Ajayi Auditorium.

He was, however, barred abruptly from speaking by the group in a “regrettable correspondence…”

The medium published a letter Sowore purportedly received from the student body, informing him that he was no longer required to speak at the event.

See her tweets below: