Northern Groups criticise SERAP, Amnesty over calls on Sowore’s case

By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo

Two Northern organisations person criticised the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Amnesty International (AI) for asking President Bola Tinubu to nonstop the withdrawal of charges against activistic Omoyele Sowore, saying specified requests hazard being seen arsenic interference successful ongoing judicial proceedings.

The groups — the Northern Ethnic Youth Group Assembly (NEYGA) and the Northern Minorities Back Tinubu Group — said successful abstracted statements that they similar judicial matters beryllium allowed to proceed done the courts. NEYGA’s spokesman, Mallam Ibrahim Dan-Musa, said the regularisation of instrumentality should beryllium respected and that citizens should let the ineligible process to instrumentality its course.

“Calls for enforcement involution successful ongoing cases could undermine the independency of judicial processes,” the radical said successful its statement, urging that Sowore’s ineligible options, including immoderate counter-suit, beryllium pursued done the courts.

The Northern Minorities Back Tinubu Group, represented by Comrade Jacob Edi, made akin remarks, noting that courts are champion placed to find the legality of immoderate statements oregon actions nether review. The radical said the result of the lawsuit could lend to ineligible precedent and jurisprudence.

Both organisations called connected Nigerians to enactment the independency of the judiciary and to let the courts and information agencies to transportation retired their law roles without outer interference.

The station Northern Groups criticise SERAP, Amnesty implicit calls connected Sowore’s case appeared archetypal connected Vanguard News.