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Nigeria: Sowore confronts lawyer over insult in court

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Nigeria: Sowore confronts lawyer over insult in courtMohamed Nanabhay from Qatar · CC BY 2.0

Nigerian opposition figure Omoyele Sowore asked a lawyer to withdraw the insult “tout” that he allegedly directed at him in a courtroom in Abuja. The confrontation preceded a hearing in Sowore’s cyberharassment trial involving President Bola Tinubu, Punch reports.

Nigerian activist Omoyele Sowore confronted a lawyer identified as Yakubu at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday after the lawyer allegedly called him a “tout”, Nigerian media outlet Punch reports.

In a video widely shared on social media, Sowore asks the lawyer to withdraw the insult and challenges the suggestion that it could be directed at him for exercising his rights. He is a presidential candidate for the African Action Congress.

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