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Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 presidential election.
According to Sahara Reporters, DSS operatives arrested Sowore in the early hours of Saturday at about 1.25 a.m.in his apartment.
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Sahara Reporters added that an eyewitness confirmed that his phone was forcefully taken from him.
It said Sowore’s “arrest and detention are not unconnected to #RevolutionNow, a series of planned protests against bad governance in Nigeria scheduled for August 5, 2019.