Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has arrived the Federal High Court in Abuja set for his arraignment on charges of treasonable felony and other sundry offences instituted against him by the Federal Government.
Sowore, who was surounded by the operatives of the Department of Service for the scheduled arraignment, arrived the fourth floor of the court edifice at about 9.10am chanting ‘Revolution’ with his waiting follower completing the slogan with a chorus of, “now”.
He is to be arraigned before Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu, whose courtroom is located on the fourth floor.
The DSS on August 3, 2019 arrested Sowore for calling for a revolution through a protest scheduled to hold on August 5.
On August 8, Justice Taiwo Taiwo in the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court granted the DSS permission to hold the activist in custody for 45 days.
Barely 24 hours before the expiration of the 45 days period on September 21, the AGF office, on September 20, filed seven counts of treasonable felony, cybercrimes and against the activist.
He added that the agency’s lawyer, G. O Agbadua, represented the agency in court on the day the order was issued, implying that the agency was not in doubt that the court order was issued.
On Friday, the DSS operatives blocked a bailiff of the court from re-serving the court order on the agency.
Saturday PUNCH reported that the bailiff narrated how he was, on Friday, prevented from serving on the DSS in the affidavit of “non-service” which he deposed to before the court’s Commissioner of Oath later on Friday.
