Human rights activist Segun Awosanya, popularly known as Segalink, has said former presidential aide and fellow activist Omoyele Sowore is not above the law.

This was after the Take It Back Movement kicked against the arrest of Sowore by the police for participating in a protest demanding the release of detained IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.

In a statement, Take It Back Movement warned that any form of detention, harassment, or intimidation of Sowore by the Nigeria Police Force or any arm of the President Bola Tinubu administration will be met with an immediate, nationwide mass action.

"Sowore is not a criminal; he is a renowned human rights activist and a voice of conscience for millions of oppressed Nigerians who continue to suffer under a corrupt and tyrannical system.

"The Tinubu-led regime must understand that this is not 1984, and Nigerians will not sit idly while their rights to dissent and protest are trampled upon.

"The right to peaceful protest is constitutionally guaranteed, and no regime, no matter how desperate, can take it away," the group said.

Reacting, Segalink reminded them that Sowore is not above the law of the land, urging them to abandon their childish approach to matters of state.

He shared on X, "How many are you people, Distinguished? Nationwide what?! You are in no position to make threats. Sowore is not above the law of the land. Nigeria is not a campus, and this childish approach to engaging matters of state should be jettisoned. You have been ignored enough."

ASA