Statement Of The Take It Back Movement Over The Continued Restrictions On The Movement Of Mr. Omoyele Sowore, The Presidential Candidate Of the African Action Congress. 

Lift Restrictions On Sowore's Movement, Allow Him Campaign Freely

Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Mr. Omoyele Sowore is the only Presidential candidate in the forthcoming general election in Nigeria whose freedom of movement is being restricted by an unjust court order. This restriction placed against his freedom of movement has by consequence given his opponents in the race, an unfair advantage over him.

While other candidates aren't hindered from campaigning to Nigerians living at home and in the diaspora, Omoyele, Sowore of the AAC has been restricted to Nigeria by an unjust court order. 

Recall that Mr. Sowore, a contender against Buhari/APC in the 2019 general election, was arrested in August 2019 by the Buhari's APC government for calling on Nigerians to protest the incompetence and failure of the regime in a five point demand that took the regime up on Education, Health, Workers'wage, Security and the Economy.

In flagrant disregard for two different court orders, Mr. Sowore was subsequently held in the DSS custody for five months. Thirty three months after his release from the DSS custody, the Buhari's APC regime have totally abandoned the case in court. 

With the inability of the regime to prove any of it's trumped up charges in court, it is now evident that the Buhari's APC government is simply using the court as a tool for the suppression of Mr. Sowore's Movement. The implication of this restriction is that while the Presidential Candidate of the ruling party, APC and other Presidential candidates are able to travel to campaign/share their ideas to Nigerians living in the diaspora, and seek their support, Sowore has been unfairly prevented from doing same. 

With this, his main opponent, the ruling APC, and the rest of the Presidential candidates in the race have been given an unfair advantage over the AAC and it's Presidential candidate, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. Consequently, the AAC and it's Presidential candidate are already being rigged out of the election by it's main opponent, the ruling APC. This alone makes nonsense of the entire electoral process and cast very strong aspersion on the credibility of the elections. The 2023 general election cannot be adjudged free and fair so long one of it's participants is being deliberately rigged out before the election begins.

It is to this end that we call on Nigerians, all lovers of freedom, and the international community to prevail on the ruling APC government to lift the restrictions placed on Mr. Sowore, the Presidential Candidate of the opposition African Action Congress party and allow Mr. Sowore campaign freely.

Signed:

Chidi Nwanyanwu

Director of Media and communications,

Take It Back Movement, Global.