A human rights lawyer, Barrister Christopher Chidera, has strongly criticized Bukola Oyeniyi and the Western Postnewspaper over an article titled “Sowore’s March of Folly: Reckless Opportunism vs Justice in Nnamdi Kanu’s Case.”
In a statement issued on October 14, 2025, Chidera described the publication as “state-sponsored propaganda” aimed at distorting public understanding of Nnamdi Kanu’s legal status. He said Oyeniyi’s write-up “reads like the lamentation of a paid propagandist,” arguing that only “those who feed from the crumbs of tyranny” could oppose the release of a man who has already been discharged and acquitted by the Court of Appeal.
According to Chidera, the appellate court’s ruling of October 13, 2022, which discharged Kanu, was a final and binding decision that extinguished all charges against him. “Under Section 36(9) of the Constitution, once a person has been discharged on a substantive criminal ground, they cannot be retried. The continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu is not just illegal—it is a mockery of justice,” he stated.
The lawyer further accused the Nigerian government and sections of the media of “weaponizing disinformation” to justify impunity, describing Oyeniyi’s defense of Kanu’s continued detention as “an open confession of legal ignorance.”
Chidera also condemned what he called Britain’s “shadow influence” in Nigeria’s handling of the case and accused local media of aiding neo-colonial suppression. “Writers like Bukola Oyeniyi are tools in this orchestra—providing grammar to justify injustice,” he said.
Defending activist Omoyele Sowore’s advocacy for Kanu’s release, Chidera insisted that Sowore’s stance represents “fidelity to justice, not recklessness.” He concluded that history would vindicate those who defend the rule of law rather than those “who sell their pens for crumbs.”