After meeting with the Nigeria Police Force’s Force Intelligence Department in Abuja, Omoyele Sowore, the former African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, said that he had been granted bail.
However, the human rights advocate stated that he would reject any bail requirements that he believes jeopardize his “integrity, dignity, and innocence.”
“The DIG of FID, Dasuki Galandachi at the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja had just informed me that he has authorized his people to grant me bail, pending the outcome of the “investigation,” Sowore wrote in a succession of posts on his X handle.
Additionally, I have informed the DIG that I would not take “bail” under terms that jeopardize my integrity, innocence, or dignity. If such irrational requirements are put in place, I will decide to stay in custody until I am charged in court, even though I am aware that there is no crime to be investigated or defined—only the impunity that has come to characterize the @PoliceNG hierarchy.
“Instead of presenting a level 17 Permanent Secretary as required by the bail condition, I have offered to stay in police custody until the joke is over.”
In a previous X post, Sowore said he had just had a meeting with the Abuja police team from the Force Intelligence Department, or FID.
But in the post, he continued to say that he is willing to face any punishment and accused the police of plotting to arrest him and transport him to Lagos for a “kangaroo trial.”
Amidst a strong security presence, the human rights activist had previously arrived to the Force Criminal Intelligence Department, or FCID, in Abuja on Monday around 10:00 am.
Sowore was called in for interrogation by the police as part of an ongoing investigation into public official obstruction and resistance.
According to police, Sowore’s name was a major element in the investigation’s focus, which included, among other things, plans to cause serious injury or thwart an arrest.
The summons, according to reports, came after Sowore was captured on camera fighting with police at the Lagos access route to Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
