Nigeria, Jan. 28 -- The Nigerian police is planning to transfer Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) to Lagos, possibly for arraignment in court, one of his lawyers told PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday.

"The latest information we have is that the police plan to take him to Lagos today," Mr Sowore's lawyer, Abubakar Marshall from Falana and Falana's chambers, said in a phone interview with our reporter.

The move, this newspaper learned, was to meet jurisdictional requirements, which entail charging a defendant where the offence is allegedly committed.

However, Mr Marshall said the police have yet to file charges against the activist "Their plan for now is to transfer him to Lagos...