Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and founder of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore has accused President Muhammadu Buhari administration of plotting to take him to prison in a bid to stop him from declaring for president next week.

Sowore, in a statement on Friday alleged that “Earlier yesterday morning a group of well- armed government sponsored miscreants attacked our contingent, assaulted and stole their phones in the Gudu area of Abuja on our way to the Court of Appeal.

“The case was immediately reportedly to the police but they did nothing about it.

“It turns out, it was part of a bigger plot as later in the afternoon a group of well armed policemen accosted me outside the Court of Appeals gate in Abuja arrested me, accusing me of “defamation” over reports published by SaharaReporters, a stand alone legal entity.

“After hours of detention they let me leave. I have just been informed now that they’ve procured a judge to remand me in prison custody because they heard I am planning to declare my presidential ambition early next week”, Sowore alleged.

Vowing not to relent in his bid to provide himself as an alternative choice for 2023 presidential election, Sowore said, “I will be bearding out shortly to meet them, I am fully prepared and very convinced that they are irreversibly heading towards self destruction.”

Meanwhile, the AAC had in a statement yesterday confirmed the arrested of its Mr. Omoyele Sowore by the police on Thursday in Abuja in a statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary, African Action Congress, Femi Adeyeye, the party under whose platform Sowore ran as a presidential candidate during the 2019 general elections.

The statement confirmed that Sowore was arrested “just after stepping out of the Court where the Chairman, party leaders and members had converged to witness the party’s case against Independent National Electoral Commission and usurpers.”

Source: StreetReporters.ng

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