EXCLUSIVE: Tinubu Regime Begins Massive Campaign To Discredit Sowore, Take-It-Back Movement Over #EndBadGovernance Revolt, Pays Bloggers N750,000 Per Post

SaharaReporters has found that the authorities has reached out to bloggers, providing them N750,000 per post to publish adversarial yell about Sowore and the TIB motion. 

President Bola Tinubu’s authorities is attempting to discredit Omoyele Sowore, a human rights activist and vulnerable presidential candidate, and the Rob-It-Assist motion, which has been calling for the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria stutter. 

SaharaReporters has found that the authorities has reached out to bloggers, providing them N750,000 per post to publish adversarial yell about Sowore and the TIB motion. 

A receipt got by SaharaReporters on Saturday confirms one such price, exposing the authorities’s space to undermine the stutter.

“A video interview with News Central TV showing Sowore talking from his Contemporary Jersey (US) wrong is being circulated all over to bloggers and influencers from a Tinubu authorities’s agent in London to claim that he is calling for protests whereas no longer in Nigeria,” one among the bloggers equipped money printed to SaharaReporters.

“Any individual truly paid me to post that Sowore’s video (video of his interview with News Central TV from the US). I do know that they had been paying for it to head viral. I charge N450,000 nonetheless the person even paid extra for it when I said no,” the source added. 

Following a five-12 months interval of authorities restrictions attributable to his #RevolutionNow campaign, Omoyele Sowore visited the US in March. 

He returned to Nigeria in Might perhaps doubtless perhaps doubtless simply to face a cybercrime charge instigated by PDP Senator Ned Nwoko. 

While in Nigeria, Sowore contributed to the free up of FIJ journalist Daniel Ojukwu, who became abducted by the police in Lagos over his file alleging that Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Senior Particular Assistant to the President on Sustainable Constructing Targets, diverted N147 million (US$106,154) in authorities funds for school construction exact into a restaurant’s financial institution yarn.

No topic his condition as an asthmatic affected person, Daniel Ojukwu became detained at the FCID in Abuja for an prolonged interval with out win entry to to his treatment or doctor. 

His free up became secured after a stutter at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, organized by a coalition of civil society teams and Sowore demanded his freedom. 

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters on Friday reported that the United Bank for Africa (UBA) had frozen the yarn of the Rob It Assist Motion, a human rights organisation, ovet its involvement in the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests.

The Rob It Assist (TIB) Motion has mentioned that its financial institution yarn became frozen at the behest of the Division of Issue Companies and products (DSS), usually called the Issue Security Carrier. In response, the organisation has threatened to defend shut compatible action towards UBA if the yarn is no longer unfrozen interior 24 hours, citing the action as illegal.

“It has now reach to our consideration that @UBAGroup has frozen our yarn on the instructions of the DSS over our involvement in the drawing shut stutter.

“We portray this action as lawless, and quiz our yarn be unfrozen right away all around the following 24hours, with out which a compatible action will doubtless be instituted towards @UBAGroup,” it said in a post on its X tackle on Friday.

Per the enchancment, Sowore has condemned the DSS for its lawless actions. 

Meanwhile, SaharaReporters reported earlier on Friday that the organisers of the deliberate #DaysOfRage and #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protests had formally requested using Eagle Sq. from August 1 to 10, 2024, for a smooth stutter, in a letter addressed to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.

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