The publisher of Sahara Reporters and a presidential candidate of the African Action Congress during the 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, has been arrested by men of the Department of State Security, DSS.
According to reports by Sahara Reporters, Omoyele was arrested in his apartment in the early hours of Saturday August 3rd. The DSS invaded his apartment with four trucks, seizing his phones and other electronic gadgets. His whereabouts is currently unknown.
Sowore posted a distress tweet at exactly 1:25 am with an eyewitness confirming that his phone was forcefully taken from him.
His arrest is rumoured to be connected with the #RevolutionNow protest which he is spearheading. #RevolutionNow is a series of planned protests against bad governance in Nigeria scheduled for August 5, 2019.