CITIZENS COMPASS—Former Presidential candidate, Omowole Sowore, on Wednesday, stormed the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force, Abuja to surrender himself for arrest.
The Sahara Reporters’s publisher arrived at the premises with a travel bag amidst cheers by some other human rights activists.
On Tuesday, the rights activist had announced that he had been summoned by the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit hence the need to visit the Police headquarters.
Sowore in a social media post made available to Citizens Compass mentioned his possible arrest by the Police.
He called for solidarity among human rights activists.
He said the Police invitation was related to a petition accusing him of forgery and criminal defamation.
Sowore arrived at the Police headquarters at about 12:16 p.m. with some of his fans chanting anti-government songs and slogans, some specifically directed at the IGP, Kayode Egbetokun.
He was flanked by his legal team, A.K. Musa and Marshal Abubakar.
The travel bag contained soap, toothpaste, clothes, and books. A clear message that he was prepared to be detained.
Sowore is the Convener of #Revolution Now, a nationwide project against bad governance in Nigeria.
The petition prompting the police invitation is dated August 5, 2025.
On Tuesday, Sowore’s social media post was title, “”IGP Monitoring Unit” summons tomorrow at 11AM.
It reads: The IGP Monitoring Unit has scheduled my interview for tomorrow at 11:00 AM, yet they have refused to provide a copy of the purported petition against me. It is now clear that their intention is to conceal the sinister plan of the illegal IGP and continue operating in darkness.
Despite this, I will honour the invitation but not alone.
I will be going with a full house.
To all our revolutionary comrades, as always, we move together.
Let every freedom fighter, every citizen of conscience, every voice of resistance assemble early tomorrow at the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja.
#RevolutionNow
#EgbetokunMustGo
