Sowore’s Lawyer Blasts Tinubu Govt for ‘Persecuting’ Nigerians Who Demand Accountability
Abubakar Marshal, lawyer to activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore, has accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of shrinking Nigeria’s civic space by prosecuting citizens who demand accountability. Speaking after a court session in Abuja, he criticized the government for focusing on silencing critics while ignoring worsening insecurity, including rampant banditry.
Marshal condemned the prosecution of Sowore as politically motivated, arguing that Nigerians have a constitutional right to free expression and recalling that Tinubu himself once defended such rights during a sedition trial in 1991. He described the charges filed by the DSS as defective and insisted they should be struck out.
Sowore, who faces allegations of cyberstalking and defamation of the president, was granted bail on self-recognizance by Justice M. D. Umar. The judge noted that Sowore had consistently obeyed court directives and posed no security threat. The case has been adjourned to January 19, 2026. Marshal urged Nigerians to resist any attempt to suppress fundamental freedoms, insisting that “until we are all free, we are not free.”
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