RevolutionNow protagonist, Omoyele Sowore, has been charged with treason and money laundering by the Federal Government.
The African Action Congress, AAC, presidential candidate in the February 23, election was arrested by security agents on August 3, 2019, following the plan to embark on a nationwide protest aimed at removing the current government as a result of alleged incompetence.
In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja, Omoyele Sowore also faces charges of money laundering and cyberstalking.
A charge against him was premised on an interview by Sowore on Arise Television on which he was said to have sent messages which he knew to be untrue and designed to cause insult, enmity, hatred and ill-will on the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
He was also accused of transferring “by means of swift wire, the sum of $19,975 from his UBA account credited by City Bank, New York into Sahara Reporters Media Foundation GTB account with the aim of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the funds.”
Another transfer of $16,975 was said to have been carried out by Sowore in violation of Section 15 (1) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011.
The protest for which he was arrested was frustrated by security agencies who barricaded the National Stadium, Surulere Lagos, venue of the protest.
It would be recalled that the Department of State Services, DSS, got the permission of the court to detain Sowore for 45 days.