Sowore Rejects Surety Requirement, “Even If Tinubu Offers”

The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has made it clear that he will not accept his bail conditions, even if President Bola Tinubu offers to act as surety.

GWG.ng reports that Sowore is currently in police custody after being called in for questioning related to accusations of cyberstalking, negligent actions, and intimidation. These charges stem from a viral video where Sowore confronted police officers who had stopped his vehicle at a Lagos checkpoint.

Sowore rejected the bail terms set by the police, which included surrendering his international passport and providing a level 17 civil servant as a surety. He expressed his refusal to comply with what he described as “illegality,” calling the conditions “laughable, frivolous, and ridiculous.” He also argued that the police had no authority to grant such bail.

He further explained, “I cannot in good conscience participate in this illegality. The police have no right to demand a civil servant with assets worth N100 million as surety, which is itself a form of corruption. I am a publisher of an internationally recognized news website. I employ people both in Nigeria and abroad. I am not a civil servant; in fact, I am an ‘uncivil’ citizen who opposes all forms of corruption.”

Sowore continued to criticize the bail conditions, saying it was insulting to be asked for a civil servant to act as his guarantor, especially when he had fought for democracy in 1992 while people like the police officers involved had only recently joined the service. He added, “Even if President Tinubu were to offer to stand as my surety, I would still reject these absurd bail conditions.”

He also took issue with the demand for a level 17 civil servant, noting that such a position is typically a politically appointed permanent secretary. According to Sowore, asking such a person to stand as his guarantor was unreasonable and offensive. “In 1992, when I was a student leader, I was more influential than Tinubu, who was just a senator at the time,” he said.

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