‘Sowore must face trial’: US group berates SERAP, Amnesty International over anti-Tinubu post

A United States-based non-governmental organisation, Justice For All Nations (JFAN), has condemned the calls by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Amnesty International Nigeria on President Bola Tinubu to order the withdrawal of criminal charges on cybercrimes filed against human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore.

The group described the calls as self-serving and hypocritical.

The group stressed that Sowore must be tried, adding that he should be prepared to produce the court judgement in which Tinubu was convicted to defend his statement.

JFAN, in a statement issued by its coordinator, Dr Dada Popoola, on Monday, September 22, 2025, said it was strange that Amnesty International could be “a defender of impunity, blackmail and activism for cash” that Sowore is known for.

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JFAN also described SERAP as “some people’s business enterprise” under the guise of Civil Society Organisation, noting that it was not unexpected that such organisation would stand in defence of someone who called Nigeria’s President a criminal.

The group said: “In the United States where Sowore hides to perpetrate his business of Cashtivist and Blackmail, can any citizen that has not been convicted by a court of law be called a criminal?

“In their desperate bid to rig the 2019 governorship election in Rivers State for Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s candidate that Sowore sold the AAC ticket to, one of those that were killed was Dr Ferry Gberegbe, a lecturer at the Ken Saro Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Rivers State. What did Amnesty International and SERAP do then?”

JFAN, therefore, called on relevant anti-corruption and security agencies in Nigeria to beam their search lights on Civil Society Organisations and human rights activists, describing most of them as “vehicles for money laundering and terrorism funding.”

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