Trial of Sowore, Others Adjourned to May 7 as ‘Babalawo’ Storms Court in Solidarity

After an unusual display by an undisclosed young man claiming to be Sowore’s advisor, Sowore’s case with the court has been adjourned to 7th May 2021.

Though the young man who is in his 30s declined to disclose his name, he however described himself as Sowore’s spiritual advisor.
He wore a black and red-striped robe that terminated by his kneel, with a cap made from the same material.
The self-confessed spiritual advisor to Sowore also tied a red wrapper around his waist, even as he held a middle-sized calabash in his right hand.

Other items like white cowries, snail shells, and an object that looked like a dried skull of an animal, were attached to his red robe.
Sowore walked into the court premises with the supposed ‘babalawo’ (native doctor), shortly before the proceedings commenced in the case against him.
A police official who appeared as the first witness in the matter narrated how the Defendants were arrested in the early hours of January 1, while allegedly engaging in an unlawful assembly.

The witness told the court that Sowore and the others were inciting public disturbance before they were apprehended by a team of policemen at the Lokogoma junction in Abuja.