Sowore noted that, “A day of reckoning is coming, when you too will be held accountable for your actions.”
By Kehinde Okeowo
Human rights activist and the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has berated the President Bola Tinubu-led administration for using the Department of State Services (DSS) to silence critics and the opposition.
He slammed the president on Tuesday in a now-trending post shared on his official X (formerly Twitter) page.
Sowore was reacting to the recent arrest and arraignment of an Atiku Abubakar supporter over a fake letter attributed to the president.
The case involves Mubarak Abdullahi, also known as Sardaunan Samari, who was arrested after sharing a document purportedly written by Tinubu to the President of the United States on his Facebook page with the caption, “ATIKU IS COMING.”
Following his arrest, the DSS filed a three-count charge bordering on cybercrime and defamation against Abdullahi at the Federal High Court in Kaduna.
According to the account of the case, he admitted sharing the document and apologised, but was remanded at the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Kaduna.
Addressing the saga on his verified handle, Sowore questioned the government’s use of the security agency.
He went on to accuse the incumbent government of targeting citizens who speak against it instead of allowing them to express dissent.
The activist wrote, “How on earth do you reduce a national security agency like the OfficialDSSNG to a mere vacuum cleaner, deployed to sweep up dissenting voices?”
Sowore further accused the Tinubu administration of being afraid to face Nigerians and account for its record, describing the arrest of a citizen over a document shared online as “sad”.
The AAC chieftain also warned that those involved would eventually be held accountable, saying, “A day of reckoning is coming, when you too will be held accountable for your actions.”
