The Global Defence Consortium (GDC) for the Liberation of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has dismissed as fraudulent and non-existent a group calling itself the “Odua People’s Assembly,” which recently claimed to have “slammed” human rights activist Omoyele Sowore.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by Onyedikachi Ifedi, Esq., the Consortium described the so-called group as a “ghost organization” with no registration, known leadership, or physical address, accusing its promoters of spreading lies to divert public attention from Nigeria’s disobedience to court orders.
“There is no registered organization under that name with the CAC, no leadership, and no record of civic engagement,” the statement read. “It exists only in the imagination of desperate spin doctors who trade in deception.”
Sowore’s Call for Kanu’s Release ‘Lawful and Constitutional’
The Consortium maintained that Sowore’s advocacy for the release of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is grounded in both moral and legal principles, citing Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution and Article 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, which protect freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
According to Ifedi, “Only those who benefit from the weaponization of injustice fear a lawful campaign demanding that Nigeria obey her own courts.”
Panel Findings on #EndSARS Recalled
The statement also accused the group’s sponsors of “selective amnesia” over the findings of the Lagos State Judicial Panel on Restitution for Victims of SARS-Related Abuses, chaired by Justice Doris Okuwobi (rtd), which held security forces culpable for the Lekki Toll Gate killings.
“That panel documented murder, assault, and cover-up — yet these paid loudmouths keep denying it ever happened,” the statement added.
‘Digital Mercenaries and Paid Mischief’
The GDC alleged that the faceless promoters of the “Odua People’s Assembly” were part of a network of “digital mercenaries” funded to distort facts and incite ethnic tension.
It praised prominent Yoruba figures such as Femi Falana, SAN, and the late Chief Gani Fawehinmi, for standing on the side of truth and justice, noting that “no true Yoruba son or daughter will support illegal detention and the violation of the rule of law.”
‘Truth Is Not a Crime’
The group reiterated that the continued detention of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, despite his discharge by the Court of Appeal on October 13, 2022, remains “an open wound on Nigeria’s conscience.”
“You can invent as many fake assemblies as you like, but you cannot erase the truth,” Ifedi declared. “The youth remember #EndSARS, the world remembers Lekki, and history will remember that when tyranny sought to silence justice, Sowore refused to be cowed.”