BEVERLY HILLS, May 31, (THEWILL) – A key opposition figure in Nigeria and the convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, has been reportedly shot by police, while he led a protest in Abuja this Monday morning.
However, conflicting sources said the Publisher of the online news medium, Sahara Reporters, and headline figure in the #RevolutionNow campaign, was hit not by a bullet but by an activated teargas canister.
According to one eyewitness, Sowore was standing by the fence of the Unity Fountain, earlier taken over by police officers ahead of a planned protest, when his leg suffered a hit.
It could not however be ascertained if what hit Sowore was a live bullet, a rubber bullet or a teargas canister.
As he tipped over into the ground, yelling in pain, smoke visibly swirled all around the spot in which he had been standing.
Others at the protest ground fled the scene as some others made efforts to whisk the Publisher of the online news medium, Sahara Reporters, to a hospital for attention.
In the 2019 elections, the former students’ leader ran as Presidential Candidate on the platform of the African Action Congress (AAC), which he had founded the previous year.
Sowore, however, lost to the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari, who went on to win a second term.
His attempt to rally his primary constituency, the youth, on a campaign against bad governance by a Buhari regime that he played a key to role to install in 2015 ended up in his being arrested and arraigned on treason charges, following which he won a bail that restricted his movement to Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja.
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