THE ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST ME, AS ELABORATED BY CHIZOROM HARRISON OFOEGBU AKA "@IJELESPEAKS2" IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT AND IT CONFIRMS A PATTERN
The assassination plot against me, as revealed by Harrison Ofoegbu, also known as “@IjeleSpeaks2,” is not an isolated incident. It is part of a consistent and deeply troubling pattern of targeted intimidation and violence aimed at silencing dissent and crushing voices that challenge injustice.
This revelation affirms what I have long known and repeatedly stated, that there exists an organized effort to intimidate, harm, and, if possible, eliminate those of us who refuse to bow to oppression. These threats are neither random nor accidental; they are deliberate, calculated, and sustained.
I first met Harrison Ofoegbu "Ijele" when I arrived to attend Nnamdi Kanu's trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja and the DSS and the Nigeria Police Force @policeng prevented me from attended, he confronted me outside the courtroom accusing me of all sorts, but in my most democratic mannerism, I spoke to him calmly and we later became friends in the city, and later it came to my attention that some religious leaders had planned to eliminate him (Chukwuemeka Harrison Ofoegbu) accusing him of cybercrime, first they arrested him in Abuja sent him to prison on remand and later transferred him to Lagos when Barrister Femi Falana SAN was mobilized by Adeyanju Deji and myself, he was granted bail but his bail condition were deliberately structured that he could not fulfil the bail for months, this was in 2024, that had other plans, which was to eliminate him transferring him to Awka prison, having filed a new charge against him at the Federal High Court in Awka, a move that, by all indications, was designed to end his life. Tickets had already been arranged on Air Peace for four warders to escort him on what could have been a fatal journey. I refused to back down, and together we resisted. In the end, we prevailed; we saved a life.
What Ijele has revealed is not an isolated incident. It reflects a pattern I have known all too well. I have personally faced these assassination attempts. Nigeria Police Force officers have shot at me at close range. I have been beaten nearly to death in efforts to silence me. My own brother, Felix Olajide Sowore, was killed in September 2021. In the aftermath, a social media influencer in Benin City, Jack Obinyan, who once appended “Buhari” to his name, was deployed in what appeared to be a cover-up effort, harassing my family under the guise of “ongoing investigations” and attempting to discredit legitimate concerns about the circumstances of the killing. The incident was widely reported, yet manipulated to shield those responsible.
This pattern of violence and intimidation against me did not begin today. It dates back to my days at the University of Lagos during our days fighting against military dictatorship. On one occasion in 1993, as we were exiting campus, a MOPOL 20 unit led by a Commissioner, Jinadu, confronted us in a situation that could easily have turned deadly, a student beside me, Festus from El Kanemi Hall was shot in the stomach and the bullat which had been meant for me stop short of shattering his spinal cord, another student activist, Erubami the Welfare Secretary in the New Halls Complex was shot in the buttocks.
Later, on the eve of my final year examinations in 1994, elements within the Abacha regime, working with authorities at UNILAG and the Lagos State Police Command under Police Commissioner James Danbaba, mobilized cult gangs to eliminate me. The attack was led by Frank Odera, aka "Hitman," a Mobile Police officer who was also a student of Estate Management in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences (my faculty mate) at the time.
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Over the years, powerful actors have attempted similar tactics. When direct action became difficult due to exposure, the threats extended beyond me, targeting even others around me.
These were not random acts; they were calculated efforts to silence me, to force me into retreat, and to break my resolve as a public conscience and a revolutionary.
The recent revelations by @IjeleSpeaks2 should not be dismissed as mere outbursts. While he did not personally disclose to me the specifics of any plot, I have long been aware of repeated attempts on my life, and I have reason to believe such plans persist to this day.
But it is too late. The struggle for total liberation is already in motion. Nothing can stop it.
VIDEO: This was a video of a personal visit to @IjeleSpeaks2 in Ikoyi Prison in 2024
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