By Michael Boluwatife
The presidential candidate for the African Action Congress in the 2023 elections, Omoyele Sowore, was briefly detained at Murtala Muhammad International Airport in Lagos on Sunday morning.
Sowore, who had just returned to Nigeria from the USA, reported that immigration officials seized his passport and informed him of a detention order.
Sowore denounced the arrest as part of a broader crackdown by the current administration on political dissent, calling for citizens to engage in planned protests against what he described as tyranny.
This incident follows a leaked memo from the Department of State Services issued on September 12, 2024, which ordered Sowore’s arrest upon his arrival.
He 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.”
