By Harry Awurumibe, Editor, Abuja Bureau
In keeping to its promise to march to Nigeria’s seat of power, the Aso Rock Presidential Villa to pressure the federal government to release from custody Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, activists led by publisher, Omoyele Sowore have converged in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) ready to commence the march Prompt News reports.
This is even as the protesters, which includes Kanu’s lawyers led by Alloy Ejimakor, who were joined at the take-off point in Maitama by Sowore, have already met some resistance by the security operatives with teargas canisters fired at the protesters as at the time of filing this report.
The organisers of the march tagged #FreeNnamdiKanuNow, and the federal government have been locked in a legal battle over today’s protest with security agencies warning of consequences.
Just last Friday, a Federal High Court in Abuja issued an interim order restraining the organisers from protesting near the Villa, the National Assembly, and other key government institutions.
Despite the judicial hurdle, the organisers remain defiant, vowing to stick to their original plan of a peaceful convergence in the Federal Capital Territory and a march to Aso Rock Villa.
The Director of Mobilisation for the Take It Back Movement, Damilare Adenola, affirmed that the protest would go on as scheduled, both in Abuja and simultaneously in the South-Eastern states of the country.
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