Sowore made the accusation on Sunday, November 8, 2026, throughout an interview on Channels Television’s Inside Sources, where he stated how he was targeted, chased after by armed opponents and required to conceal in a senior female’s kitchen area for about 45 minutes to get away being eliminated.
According to Sowore, Asefon, a previous president of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), presumably took a trip to Ekiti with cash from Abuja to arrange the attack.
“The individual who organized the attack, we later on found out, is the previous NANS President and Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Students Engagement. His name is Sunday Asefon,” Sowore declared.
“He was the one who went to Ekiti, I heard, with cash from Abuja, to arrange them to assault me.”
The activist likewise determined Sola Adenijo, widely called Solar, as one of the opponents, declaring that he was the enforcer for the Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority, Oyetunde Ojo, President Tinubu’s son-in-law and partner of the president’s child, Folasade Tinubu-Ojo.
Sowore even more declared that Adenijo was designated treasurer of the City Boy Movement in Ekiti, while another private seen wielding a machete throughout the attack was the motion’s Chief Security Officer.
He stated the identities of the opponents were developed through a video recording gotten from somebody at the scene and consequently launched by his group.
Sowore revealed that he took a trip to Ekiti to take part in the Ikogosi Marathon, having went to the previous edition.
He described that his criticism of Governor Biodun Oyebanji following his check out to Ikogosi in 2015 may have added to the hostility versus him.
“Ikogosi is the home town of the existing guv, Biodun Oyebanji. When I returned (in 2015), they will have an election and I discovered that this guy didn’t do anything,” he stated.
He even more declared that before his interview at Midas FM 96.5, the guv’s Chief Security Officer, CSP Ayodele Akinlua, got in touch with among his celebration members to ask what he was carrying out in Ekiti and whether he planned to arrange a rally.
“That he hoped I didn’t have any strategies to rally in Ekiti? That Ekiti is a one-party state. I informed him not to stress, that they do not can stop us. It is our nation,” Sowore stated.
After the radio interview, Sowore and his entourage stopped at Tawakalitu Restaurant in main Ado-Ekiti.
He declared that within 15 minutes of their arrival, gunshots sounded out as armed guys stormed the dining establishment.
“We purchased food and within 15 minutes of getting here there, we simply heard gunshots outside. Individuals began hurrying within. They had actually pertained to assault us,” he stated.
Sowore declared that policeman appointed to accompany his group deserted them when the aggressors got here, while his organized, who remained in plain clothing and bring a hidden handgun, was deactivated.
He stated the enemies took the officer’s weapon and consistently screamed that they wished to eliminate him.
Sowore stated he got away through the dining establishment’s backdoor, sustaining injuries to his leg and palm.
He told that he got to an area where he had the ability to tweet and send out “a Facebook message that we were under attack, they returned trying to find me, yelling the instructions I went, ‘It is Sowore we desire. We wish to eliminate him.'”
He stated that he ultimately discovered haven in a senior female’s cooking area in a ‘face-me-I-face-you’ structure (tenement home), where she hid his existence as about 40 boys browsed neighbouring homes.
“There had to do with 40 young guys there and we might hear them stating if they had actually discovered this individual they were trying to find, they would have eliminated him. I invested about 45 minutes because condition and I had actually lost my phone,” he stated.
Sowore contested the cops account that officers saved him, firmly insisting that he personally left of his concealing location to satisfy them after calling his organized.
“So, I wasn’t saved by the cops as they declare,” he stated, although he acknowledged that the officers consequently transferred him to a police-run medical facility.
He likewise implicated the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police of trying to minimize the attack by explaining it as a run-in.
Sowore stated the commissioner visited him at the healthcare facility however left without talking to him, just to release a declaration about 10 minutes later on explaining the occurrence as a battle in between 2 groups.
He included that a policeman addressing the victims alerted him: “Our CP understands individuals who assaulted you. You much better beware.”
He even more declared that security operatives consequently eliminated the dining establishment’s CCTV devices and accessed the recordings.
According to him, the dining establishment owner later on revealed that the operatives and DSS workers required the password to the monitoring system and generated the specialist who installed it.
He declared that the recordings revealing the attack were consequently erased which the owner was informed there was no video readily available due to the fact that she had actually not spent for storage.
Sowore stated his group later on tracked the taken phones and AI glasses to the guv’s lodge on the night of the attack.
“We tracked our phones and the gadgets to the guv’s lodge that very same night. We are discussing 17 phones. The guv fast rejected that there was absolutely nothing like that,” he stated.
He declared that after his group started providing proof, the guv and the cops commissioner stopped discussing the matter.
Sowore likewise questioned the cops statement that 11 suspects had actually been jailed, explaining them as “phony individuals” provided to divert attention from the real wrongdoers.
He stated the suspects were arraigned the following day and launched on bail, while some members of his group were at first enabled to determine and recover their taken phones.
He stated the cops consequently stopped launching the staying gadgets after notifying them that Abuja had actually taken over the examination.
Sowore likewise remembered that Sola Adenijo had actually formerly been apprehended and charged over the killing of a policewoman and numerous other individuals in 2021 however was never ever founded guilty.
He declared that the suspect was launched through political connections, declaring that Ojo was associated with protecting his release.
Sowore stated his group had actually sent a petition to the authorities however had actually gotten no significant action regardless of the severity of the accusations and proof they declared to have actually offered.
“We have actually discovered all those connections and we are exposing all these things, yet, absolutely nothing was done by the cops,” he stated.
He implicated the authorities of declining to supply updates while requiring that he send an official declaration before leaving Ekiti.
“One other thing they did when I kept plaguing them was to state that there is no grievance, that I didn’t compose a declaration before I left. If I had actually passed away, they would have been asking for a declaration from my dead body,” he stated.
Sowore kept that the authorities needs to be holding routine press instructions and supplying updates up until those accountable for the attack are detained and prosecuted.
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