The party specifically referenced reports that Sowore was injured during the protest while demanding the release of schoolchildren and teachers abducted by criminal groups across the country.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has condemned the attack on human rights activist and presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and other protesters during Democracy Day demonstrations in Abuja.
The PDP described the incident as evidence that the lessons of the historic June 12 struggle remain largely unlearnt under Nigeria's current democratic dispensation of President Bola Tinubu.
It accused the Tinubu-led administration of suppressing dissent and failing to uphold the democratic freedoms for which many Nigerians fought and died during the pro-democracy movement that followed the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election.
In a statement issued on Friday to mark Democracy Day and signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Ini Ememobong, the PDP said it was disturbing that peaceful demonstrators were teargassed and assaulted on a day dedicated to celebrating democracy and civil liberties.
