Publisher of Sahara Reporters Omoyele Sowore on Friday said he would be heading to the United States to reunite with his family after Nigerian authorities ended the treasonable felony case against him.
In a lengthy Facebook post, Mr Sowore criticised the All Progressives Congress government led by former President Muhammadu Buhari for his detention which kept him away from his family.
“Later today, I will be returning to the US after almost five years of my unlawful, unjust and inhuman detention by the corrupt Nigerian political system since August 2019,” he wrote.
“I was arrested, assaulted, tortured, and detained for demanding that Nigerians deserved a nation that they can truly call their own. I was charged with treason – and after five years, the APC government was forced to withdraw its trumped-up charges against me.
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“If the government thought that keeping me detained and later restricting my movement would break my spirit and cause me to renounce my commitment to fighting for the downtrodden Nigerian people, they are mistaken.”
Sowore further said that the years of his detention made him miss out on precious moments with his wife and children while his mother’s health deteriorated due to the “unrelenting assault” on him, adding, “My associates have faced arrest, and some imprisonment”.
The former presidential candidate noted that his trip to the US was for a short while.
“I will return to Nigeria to continue my struggle for the total liberation of our people from the shackles of the current corrupt, self-serving political class,” Sowore said.
