Opeyemi Sowore, wife of the detained convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, has said that the Federal Government has no evidence against her husband.
In an interview on a TV show in the US, Democracy Now!, Mrs Sowore said there was no ground for her husband’s continued detention.
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A video of the interview was shared on the show’s YouTube channel.
Sowore has been in the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS) since August 2.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had on August 28 refused to grant the motion filed by Sowore challenging his detention for 45 days by the DSS.
However, Sowore’s wife said in the interview: “There are no formal charges per se. He’s being investigated, so the courts gave the Nigerian government or the DSS the ability to hold him for 45 days to investigate – treason, possible treason and terrorism.
“They based it upon a meeting that he had with Nnamdi Kanu, who has an organisation around Biafra. He met with him. Yele made it public. In fact, he disagrees with some of Nnamdi’s rhetoric, but he met with him. And Yele’s whole thing is bringing in everybody’s voices so that Nigeria can be a country for pretty much all of its citizens. So, that’s one of the things that they mentioned against them.
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“They also mentioned he may have taken money from international countries, and he met them in Dubai. He has never been to Dubai before, which was an interesting statement on the Nigerian government’s part. And no money, basically, has been found with him. So, those were some of the things that they’ve mentioned and associated with him, but they basically have no grounds for holding him and haven’t found any evidence.”
She also said she had been able to talk to him only twice since his incarceration.
