Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the 2023 election, was on Sunday morning arrested after arriving at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, and released soon after.
The DSS in a memo on Thursday, September 12, 2024, ordering the arrest of Sowore upon his arrival in Nigeria was leaked.
Alerting the public on his arrest, Sowore wrote: “I had just arrived in Nigeria from the USA at MMIA in Lagos; upon reaching Nigerian Immigration, my passport was seized, and they told me they had orders to detain me.”
“This is not unexpected because I have always known that it is part of the broader clampdown by the fascist @officialAbat regime on dissent and their fear of the upcoming #FearlessINOctober revolt.
“In case this becomes another prolonged and protracted detention, I urge our citizens to ensure they ALL stop tyranny by all means acceptable and necessary, by engaging in the planned series of direct actions slated for 1 October and beyond.”
The activist politician’s flight left Washington Dulles International Airport at 6.14 EDT and arrived in Lagos at about 9.43am.
However, in a subsequent post on his official X handle, Sowore said he had been released by the Nigerian Immigration Service and his passport had been released to him after it was earlier confiscated.
“I have just been released by the Nigerian Immigration after a brief detention and my passport was released back to me, ” he wrote.
