Femi Falana, counsel to Omoyele
Sowore, convener of RevolutionNow Movement, on Monday alleged that the Nigerian
government offered the activist a “death warrant” deal while in custody of the
Department of State Services, DSS.
Falana disclosed that the
Nigerian government reached out for the deal during Sowore’s first 45 days in
detention.
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Falana said: “They went to a court behind us and got an order to detain Sowore
for 45 days to investigate his alleged terrorism.
“At the end of the investigation,
nothing was found but they went to him in detention to reach a deal.”
The activist stated that the DSS
also reached out to him so as to convince Sowore when they could not persuade
the Sahara Reporters’s publisher to take the deal he was offered.
“When they could not succeed,
they met me and they wanted me to persuade him to agree to sign his death
warrant and I told them off,” he said.
Falana said the intelligence
agency “filed charges” against Sowore when they could not convince him to take
the deal.
Sowore and his co-defendant
Olawale Bakare were accused of treasonable felony, cyberstalking and money
laundering.
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