Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has visited detained Awka based businessman, Linus Williams, popularly known as Blord, at the Kuje Correctional Centre.
Blord was remanded for 26 days last week following the adjournment of a case involving him and social media activist Martin Vincent Otse, also known as VeryDarkMan.
Sowore, who had earlier condemned the detention and called on the counsel to Otse, Marshal Abubakar, to discontinue the case, reiterated his stance, describing the situation as oppressive and pledging to secure Blord’s release.
Speaking after the visit on Wednesday, Sowore said the businessman remained in high spirits despite his detention, but alleged that there was a political undertone to the case.
According to him, Blord’s refusal to align with President Bola Tinubu’s support group, City Boy Movement, contributed to his predicament.
“We met Blord today and we were surprised that the young man is in high spirit. We went to see him, feeling bad for him because of what he was passing through, but we were surprised to see him in high spirit.
“We visited the correctional centre which is a huge community of oppressed people, and our aim is to ensure that no one is oppressed or detained unjustly in Nigeria, at least during our lifetime.
“We however found that at there is a political undertone to his detention. He had refused to join some other young Igbo businessmen who call themselves City Boys to support Tinubu.
“He made a video saying he would never join city boys, and that it was village people that were pursuing them to join the City Boy Movement and they did not take it in good fate and they went after him. All of these would be resolved very soon,” he said.
Sowore also commented on the recent protest by leaders of the African Democratic Congress at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in Abuja, criticizing what he described as selective activism.
“One thing I can only advise them to do is not to protest when matters concern them alone, they should also protest when it concerns Nigerians.
“Once elections are over next year, Atiku Abubakar will return to Dubai where he lives permanently, but for us, we are here. I have even protested on their behalf before. I protest everyday, whether there is election or not,” he added.
