Leaked Audio Exposes Alleged Plot To Assassinate Sowore In Lagos

A leaked audio has revealed an alleged crippled by suspected governmental thugs successful Lagos State to assassinate quality rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike candidate, Omoyele Sowore.

In the audio, a antheral identified arsenic Timileyin Ishola Olafimihan, popularly known arsenic “Is Nothing”, was heard boasting astir a lasting bid to onslaught and termination Sowore whenever helium is spotted successful Lagos.

“If they drawback Sowore, these radical are not police, they are thugs. They are readying to termination him anyplace they spot him,” the dependable said.

Olafimihan allegedly warned supporters and activists not to travel Sowore connected his adjacent travel to Lagos, insisting that “the boys person been mobilised and paid to bash the job.”

The improvement reportedly followed Sowore’s progressive engagement successful protests against the amerciable demolition of houses successful the Oworonshoki assemblage successful Lagos, which has displaced hundreds of residents.

When contacted, however, Olafimihan denied the assassination plot, claiming the viral audio was taken retired of context.

“Don’t caput the audio. I was lone joking, and the idiosyncratic I sent it to is similar my neighbour. No thug is readying to assassinate Sowore,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, connected Monday, declared Sowore “wanted” aft the activistic led a protestation astatine Oworonshoki against the ongoing demolitions.

Speaking astatine the demolition site, CP Jimoh accused Sowore of “instigating unrest” and attempting to mobilise residents to obstruct postulation connected the Third Mainland Bridge.

“I hereby, arsenic the Commissioner of Police, Lagos Police Command, state Sowore wanted,” Jimoh said.
“I state him wanted for the enactment of causing disturbance of nationalist bid and an effort to perpetrate superior felony by readying and putting each the plans successful question to obstruct postulation connected the Third Mainland Bridge to origin hardship for Lagosians and different Nigerians. We volition not let this to happen.”

But, quality rights lawyers Deji Adeyanju and Marshal Abubakar, condemned the Commissioner’s declaration, describing it arsenic a “dangerous maltreatment of power” and a “blatant disregard for owed process.”

“The unilateral declaration of a national arsenic ‘wanted’ by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police is truthful a unsafe disregard for owed process and the regularisation of law. Such a constabulary commissioner who does not recognize this basal rule is not a acceptable and due idiosyncratic to clasp that office,” Adeyanju said successful a statement.

He further noted that declaring Sowore wanted for organising a protestation was an onslaught connected citizens’ law rights.

“Declaring Omoyele Sowore ‘wanted’ for organising a protestation is not the defence of nationalist order. It is simply a informing changeable against the close to dissent,” helium said.

“The Nigerian Constitution itself guarantees the close to state of assembly, association, and expression. These rights were not granted by the constabulary oregon immoderate limb of government, they are inherent to citizenship.”

Adeyanju added that lone a competent tribunal of instrumentality tin state a idiosyncratic wanted, stressing that the Commissioner acted extracurricular the limits of his authority.

“Only a competent tribunal of instrumentality tin marque specified a declaration, and it indispensable beryllium based connected credible grounds and justifiable ineligible grounds,” helium said.