The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina has said that a lot of Nigerians are unbothered about the re-arrest of Sahara Reporters publisher Mr Omoyele Sowore.
Adesina said this on a Sunrise Daily program on Channels Television on Monday.
He said the Presidency stands by the claim of the State Security Service that the video circulating did not reflect what actually transpired in court.
The President’s spokesman added, “I don’t particularly agree with you when you say a lot of Nigerians (are not happy), you know that all this noise has been coming from less than 100,000 Nigerians. And the noise will be so loud that you think it is the whole country.
“It is a country of 198 million people. When just 100,000 are making noise in the social and traditional media, you would think the whole country is in an uproar. There are millions and millions of people who are not bothered.
“There are millions of people who know what the issues are. So, you cannot just seek the opinion of a local minority and then conclude that the country is in an uproar.”
Remember that Omoyele Sowore was one of the presidential aspirants of 2019 election and was detained by the Department of State Service over his call for Revolution in August 2019. He has been granted bail by courts but was never released.
Eventually, his lawyers were able to secure his release on the 5th of December, 2019 and were supposed to appear on the court hearing the next day but unfortunately, the DSS invaded the court and re-arrested him. A fact that DSS has denied and has been backed by the presidency.
