JUST IN: Sowore Led #FreeNnamdiKanuNow Protesters Defy Court Order, Vow To March To Aso Rock
Organisers of the #FreeNnamdiKanuNow have vowed to march to Presidential Villa to pressure the government to release the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu.
This is even as a Federal High Court in Abuja has issued an interim order restraining the organisers from protesting near the Villa, the National Assembly, and other key government institutions.
However the organisers have vowed 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, told Punch that the protest would go on as scheduled, both in Abuja and simultaneously in the South-Eastern states of the country.
Asked if the protesters would take their grievance to the seat of power as planned, Adenola said, “Nothing shall discourage us! Marching peacefully anywhere in the country is our constitutionally guaranteed right. Nothing can derogate it.”
Speaking further, he said, “There is no going back on our resolve to fight this inhumane, illegal and strongman act scripted to promote the erosion of our rights, and the capture of whatever remains of our criminal justice system.”
The plan of the organisers to march to the Presidential Villa directly contravenes an interim injunction granted by Justice Mohammed Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja.
The order, issued on Friday, followed an ex parte application filed by the Nigeria Police Force on behalf of the Federal Government.
