Opeyemi Sowore, wife the presidential candidate of the African Action Congres, Omoyele Sowore, has decried the detention of her husband by the Department of State Services, DSS,
According to her, her husband is being investigated for treason and there are no formal charges against him., “no money, basically, has been found with him,” she said.
She said this during an interview on a US television show, Democracy Now.
“There are no formal charges per se. He’s being investigated, so the courts gave the Nigerian government or the DSS the ability to hold him for 45 days to investigate — treason, possible treason and terrorism. They based it upon a meeting that he had with Nnamdi Kanu, who has an organization around Biafra.
“They also mentioned he may have taken money from international countries, and he met them in Dubai. He has never been to Dubai before, which was an interesting statement on the Nigerian government’s part. And no money, basically, has been found with him,” Opeyemi said.
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Mrs Sowore also revealed how her husband was taken and detained by the DSS adding that she had been able to talk to him only twice since his arrest.
She said, “It was Friday night here, Saturday in Nigeria, I got a text from him saying, “I love you.” And I’m like, “OK, great. I love you, too.” But his cousin started calling me over and over about an hour after that and told me that he had been detained. And for four days — or, three days, we did not have any contact with him. We didn’t know where he was. He was taken by force at his hotel in Lagos and transported to Abuja and of course, he didn’t eat their food, didn’t drink their water for all those days.”
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