Presidential candidate of the African Action
Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has cried out over the continued detention of
his supporters by the Lagos State Commissioner of Police for pasting campaign posters.
Sowore, who made the shocking revelation on Sunday via his
twitter handle @yelesho, said: “Just spoke with the DPO of Area F, and he
shockingly revealed that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgar
ordered that our supporters be kept in detention for pasting my posters. Edgar
hasn’t been reachable since.”
According to the state Police Public Relations
Officer, CSP Chike Oti, the anti-crime patrol team of the Lagos State Police
Command arrested “six young men for…ripping posters of other political parties
and replacing them with that of the African Action Congress (AAC).”
Chike added that the exhibits recovered from the
suspects are “a poster bearing the picture of the presidential candidate of the
AAC, Sowore; brush, bucket containing gums and torn off posters of other
political parties.”
The supporters, who were pasting posters as at the
time of their arrest in Ikeja (Under Bridge) in Lagos, are Olagokun Banwo,
Olagokun Odunayo, Omidiji Damilola, Koolkloud Henry, Ugagu Joseph and Kate
Michael.
The AAC presidential candidate, who is also a
pro-democracy campaigner and human rights activist, has decried the move, and
called for their immediate release from detention. The police commissioner
could not be reached as at the time of filing this report.
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