The Nigerian Police on Friday arrested politician cum activist Deji Adeyanju during the day 94 of the Free Zakzaky (#FreeZakzaky) daily sit-out at the Unity Fountain, Abuja.
Participants of the sit-out were tear gassed and forcefully evicted from the centre.
Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky is an outspoken Shi’a Muslim cleric in Nigeria, and head of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). In December 2015, the Nigerian Army raided his residence in Zaria, seriously injured him, and killed hundreds of his followers; since then, he has remained under state detention in the nation’s capital against court order that he should be released and compensated by the government.
The Buhari Media Support Group, recently, asked for the arrest and interrogation of Adeyanju for crimes of sedition. The group made this known in a statement signed by its chairman Austin Braimoh and secretary Cassidy Madueke.
“Deji Adeyanju is notorious for his mischief and falsehood. He does this deliberately to incite the public. He is also known for his media consultancy with the Islamic Movement of Nigeria on whose platform he has called for civil unrest across the country against the government.
“He has also taken to the social media several times to make completely false statements against the government, most times implicitly calling for anarchy,” the statement also read.
The group called on all security agencies to act and compel him to produce evidence for the many claims he made that were capable of inciting the public and causing disharmony.
The statement also claimed that people like Mr Adeyanju were the elements in the public that had been responsible for disunity and disharmony in the country, stressing that failure of the security agencies to put a stop to his incitements would have a detrimental effect on the stability and social order of the country.
