The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC,
has reacted to the re-arrest of Omoyele Sowore, convener of the RevolutionNow
Movement by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, at an Abuja
Federal High Court.
The group says it was “improper”
for a man who lost an election to lead a revolution against the winner of that
same election just a few months later.
Sowore had contested for the 2019
presidential election on the platform of the African Action Alliance, AAC, but
President Muhammadu Buhari had emerged the winner of the poll.
However, MURIC appealed for calm
over the matter, stressing that dialogue should be used in resolving the
impasse.
A statement by MURIC’s Director,
Professor Ishaq Akintola reads: “Sowore is an active member of civil society.
Perhaps this is why human rights groups are in a hurry to castigate the DSS and
call President Buhari names. But has civil society pursed to ponder on Sowore’s
tactical blunder? We all must admit that it was improper for a man who lost an
election to lead #Revolutionnow against the winner of that same election just a
few months later. It amounts to seeking to gain by the bends what he could not
get at the straight.
“In our efforts to engage in
dialogue over the Sowore furore, we were confronted with a statement
purportedly made by the activist politician. He was alleged to have said on
25th July 2019, ‘I’m not talking of protest. I’m embarking on revolution. 85%
of Nigerians are in support. Don’t tell me about legal implications or what a
Judge will say. I don’t care. We must bundle Buhari out of that place…the DSS
shall cease to exist!’
“If it is true that he said the
above, those of us in civil society should have the courage to tell him that he
went too far. We all know what has been happening across the globe. Algeria,
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Spain, Venezuela, etc are examples. No nation takes a
threat to security lightly.
“As a human rights group, MURIC
wants Sowore freed. We are for constitutionalism and rule of law. But national
security must not be jettisoned. Those of us who are leaders of civil society
must realise that we have a duty to lead responsibly. Radicalism must not shut
the door against rationalism. We believe that Aluta must stop where any matter
affecting national security starts.
MURIC has, therefore, advised
members of the civil society to call off its planned protest particularly in
view of the fact that government has ordered a probe into the circumstances
surrounding the re-arrest of Sowore and Bakare.
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