Renowned activist and publisher of SaharaReporters, Omoyele Sowore, has declared that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, has become a celebrity inside the Sokoto Custodial Centre.
Naijaonpoint reports that Sowore spoke to journalists at the Federal High Court, Abuja, where he insisted that the Federal Government would eventually realise it made a historic blunder by securing a life sentence against the separatist agitator.
The former presidential candidate said Kanu’s influence inside the detention facility had grown significantly since his relocation to Sokoto.
According to him: “Nnamdi Kanu is already a celebrity in prison. They said he has already become the president of the prison, but I doubt, it must have been conferred on him just by respect.”
He added that attempts by authorities to humiliate the IPOB leader had backfired: “When they were taking him to Sokoto, they thought that they would ridicule him, and when they got to Sokoto, he turned Sokoto into another Mecca.”
Sowore maintained that the government would eventually reverse Kanu’s sentence.
“Very soon you will see that, on their own, they would reverse the fundamental mistake they have made regarding Kanu,” he said.
The activist further claimed he had long foreseen the outcome: “I predicted that they would send him to prison, and I predicted that it would be the mistake of their lives.”
‘Judge Will Still Beg Him’
The former Presidential candidate also took a swipe at the trial judge, Justice James Omotosho.
“I want his family members to give me the right to admit people to see him, so that I would tell you the day the judge who sentenced him would go to Sokoto to beg, like Fela was begged, if he has not done that already,” Sowore said.
He mocked the rush of people seeking to visit the IPOB leader: “The people we asked to protest to prevent Kanu from going to jail are all rushing to Sokoto.”
Sowore blasted federal authorities for allegedly mismanaging the case.
“They don’t have sense or people who can reason in government. Look at where we are, you jailed Kanu and he’s now a celebrity in prison,” he stated.
The activist insisted that the treatment meted out to the IPOB leader had only elevated his status among supporters.
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