Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu,has emerged the first governor to condemn the circumstances in which the Department of State Security rearrested the Convener of RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, on Friday.
The situation he, like many other people, see as a description of the courtroom, is one he believes every lawyer and other concerned people should speak about.
Speaking at a function on Monday, Akeredolu, a past President of the Nigerian bar Association, said:
“It should be an anathema to the bar that inaction has come upon us. The bar needs to talk on quite a number of things.
“We must be terror against demagogues. It is when your voice of the bar is heard consistently that it will earn respect. Will people go and desecrate our courtrooms and we keep quiet? The bar must condemn it. There is no explanation anybody can give you.
“Somebody calls it drama. Drama! How? What we saw was not drama, you must stand up to condemn the SSS for what they did in Abuja.
“Our spirit must remain indomitable. Forget about where we are today because enough of us made efforts to say what you have done is wrong and only way out was apology almost immediately but what people believe is different.
“If we are not careful, the day will come that people will walk into a judge’s sitting and arrest people with their wig and gown.”
