Nigeria, Aug. 6 -- The Nigeria Police Force has reissued a corrected invitation to #TakeBackNigeria convener, Omoyele Sowore, requesting him to appear for questioning on Wednesday (today).

The new invitation, dated 5 August and addressed to Mr Sowore through his lawyer, Tope Temokun, followed his (Sowore) earlier refusal to honour a flawed summons.

The police appear to have dropped the allegation of "inciting disturbance" contained in the initial invitation letter, following Mr Sowore's critical review pointing out flaws in it. Instead of that, the police now accuse him in their subsequent letters of "criminal defamation" in addition to "forgery", which was one of the two initial allegations.

Mr Sowore had demanded a proper reissue, in...