A presidential aspirant in the 2019 general elections and convener of #Take Nigeria Back Movement, Mr. Omoyele Sowore, has attributed the challenges as well as failures being recorded on the various spheres of Nigeria’s national life to lack of capacity and character by the country’s past and current leaders.
Sowore, who is also the publisher of Sahara Reporters spoke in Abuja during a townhall meeting with Nigerians on Tuesday night.
The presidential aspirant who has been going around the country to meet the citizens at the grassroots in actualisation of his presidential ambition, said the present crop of Nigerian leaders cannot take the country out of its economic and political logjam because the level of their thinking is still at the ‘analogue’ level.
While commenting on murderous activities of criminal herdsmen, Sowore stressed that the Fulani bandits became audacious simply because they have somebody at the helms of affairs who is enabling their criminal activities with the support of middle cadre criminal security agents.
" The only way Nigeria can get out this circle is to get rid of this man because as you are voting him out you are also voting out his lieutenants and cabal," he noted.
On restructuring, Sowore pointed out that he did not believe the ‘old men’ who have been shouting restructuring mean well for Nigeria.
He cited the example of Chief Olu Falae who collected N100million from former President Goodluck Jonathan to ‘restructure’ his pocket during the campaign for 2015 general elections.
He stressed that there is need to address the energy sector particularly electricity which, according to him, must be given the deserved priority.
Sowore also told the audience that Nigeria biggest resource is not oil.
In his words " Nigeria biggest resource is not oil, especially in this knowledge base global economy. It is the Nigerian brain and Nigerians that I have known have been operating on their own to survive. You know that they are just waiting to be unleashed on the world with their intellect and capacity for hard work "
He promised to have an energy mix forum as soon as he is voted into power, promising that his government would generate 4,500mw of electricity through solar alone. He said through solar, the country can get 52,000mw that can power universities and its environs at a lesser cost.
" It can be done in 90 days. It is just to bring in the materials assemble them and hook them up to the grid," Sowore stated.
Sowore assured that the present economic and political logjam being experienced in the country can be reversed through revolutionary politics.
He added that there is no need to join any party but to build a movement that would wrestle power from the present crop of politicians and to the advantage of the people.
The activist said that there is need to give Nigerian workers living wage instead of minimum wage, adding that no worker can live on N18, 000.
He revealed that 21% of the federal workforce are ghost workers.
"We saw the police, 80, 000 policemen did not exist and you take that out and the rest of them are guiding the VIPs and their girlfriends. All these have to change immediately," he submitted.
"One thing I told their people when they called after I arrived Abuja that I should be careful and I told them that there is nothing to be careful about because you are talking to the President of Nigeria come 2019. I refused to ask for police protection because I am being protected by the people of Nigeria "
Co-Convener #BringBackOurGirls, Aisha Yesufu, was among the speakers at the event.
http://saharareporters.com/2018/04/11/current-leaders-lack-capacity-move-nigeria-forward-says-sowore
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PMB1523 CV TO 2019 ELECTIONS

- All salary arrears paid up
- All contractual debts paid up
- All Pension arrears paid up
- All money owed Biafran war veterans paid off
- Almost known treasury leakages sealed up
- Treasury thieves being investigated and prosecuted
- Recession overcome within one year
- The foreign reserve keeps growing despite low oil price
- Inflation is reducing
- The Capital market rated highest globally
- The ease of doing business rated high
- Greatly reduced food import bills
- Greatly increased Internal Revenue Generation drive
- Revamped and more effective tax regime
- More efficient and more responsible Civil Service
- All Federal roads being reconstructed across the Country
- Fast rails being constructed between the state capitals
- Gas pipeline being laid from South to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano
- 13 Modular Refineries being built in ND
- Private Financing for our three Refineries being negotiated
- Private Refineries to collocate with the existing Refineries being concluded
- Influx of foreign companies increasing
- Increased investments by domestic investors
- The Electricity Generating capacity at 7000 MW
- Transmission Capacity at 7000 MW
- Distribution capacity being restructured to inject more capital and expertise
- The economy of Nigeria being Restructured from oil based to Agric, Solid Mineral and Manufacture based
- Boko Haram now a distant ding in the orchestra of general quietude
- IPOB now a mute idea ready for discussions at the right time
- Niger Delta Avengers now reduced from a movement to Madam’s Patie military wing for retaining her loot.
- Military vehicles sourced from a Nigeria car manufacturer for the first time
These are not propositions; all these and more will be on the Curriculum Vitae of PMB in the 2019 Presidential Elections. And he did not achieve these by fluke, he was deliberate; the economy he inherited was dire. The country was running on one cylinder and the engine had just coughed its last, the engine was dead and the ”plane” was adrift.
I know all these achievements won’t make meaning to wailers because they are not putting money directly into your pockets. I know that is the only achievements Nigerians recognise. The amount of money individuals grab into their pockets.
Orderliness is more vital than speed"

Exactly

ALMUSTAQIM:
PMB1523 CV TO 2019 ELECTIONS

- All salary arrears paid up
- All contractual debts paid up
- All Pension arrears paid up
- All money owed Biafran war veterans paid off
- Almost known treasury leakages sealed up
- Treasury thieves being investigated and prosecuted
- Recession overcome within one year
- The foreign reserve keeps growing despite low oil price
- Inflation is reducing
- The Capital market rated highest globally
- The ease of doing business rated high
- Greatly reduced food import bills
- Greatly increased Internal Revenue Generation drive
- Revamped and more effective tax regime
- More efficient and more responsible Civil Service
- All Federal roads being reconstructed across the Country
- Fast rails being constructed between the state capitals
- Gas pipeline being laid from South to Abuja, Kaduna and Kano
- 13 Modular Refineries being built in ND
- Private Financing for our three Refineries being negotiated
- Private Refineries to collocate with the existing Refineries being concluded
- Influx of foreign companies increasing
- Increased investments by domestic investors
- The Electricity Generating capacity at 7000 MW
- Transmission Capacity at 7000 MW
- Distribution capacity being restructured to inject more capital and expertise
- The economy of Nigeria being Restructured from oil based to Agric, Solid Mineral and Manufacture based
- Boko Haram now a distant ding in the orchestra of general quietude
- IPOB now a mute idea ready for discussions at the right time
- Niger Delta Avengers now reduced from a movement to Madam’s Patie military wing for retaining her loot.
- Military vehicles sourced from a Nigeria car manufacturer for the first time
These are not propositions; all these and more will be on the Curriculum Vitae of PMB in the 2019 Presidential Elections. And he did not achieve these by fluke, he was deliberate; the economy he inherited was dire. The country was running on one cylinder and the engine had just coughed its last, the engine was dead and the ”plane” was adrift.
I know all these achievements won’t make meaning to wailers because they are not putting money directly into your pockets. I know that is the only achievements Nigerians recognise. The amount of money individuals grab into their pockets.
Orderliness is more vital than speed"

deluded fellow...continue suffering and smiling

Even if sowore become the president, with the way the country is structured, he will fail just like GEJ and buhari

Omololu2121:
Even if sowore become the president, with the way the country is structured, he will fail just like GEJ and buhari

they like talking too much.Buhari say all this story before he was elected.They alway make promises without fulfilling them

Omololu2121:
Even if sowore become the president, with the way the country is structured, he will fail just like GEJ and buhari

mrkunlex:
they like talking too much.Buhari say all this story before he was elected.They alway make promises without fulfilling them

So it is better that we continue with these old men with analog thinking? These old men are almost 80 and do not want to retire to look after their grand children. Yaba

trillville:





So it is better that we continue with these old men with analog thinking? These old men are almost 80 and do not want to retire to look after their grand children. Yaba

GEJ and PMB said more than this before they became the president.

Is GEJ an old man with an analog thinking too?
We need to work on our constitution, to what will work for us,Nigeria stop developing after major general JTU agunyi ironsi introduced this unitary system of government.

We need to sit down and talk

Omololu2121:
GEJ and PMB said more than this before they became the president.

Is GEJ an old man with an analog thinking too?
We need to work on our constitution, to what will work for us,Nigeria stop developing after major general JTU agunyi ironsi introduced this unitary system of government.

We need to sit down and talk

i think restructuring will work

Omololu2121:
GEJ and PMB said more than this before they became the president.

Is GEJ an old man with an analog thinking too?
We need to work on our constitution, to what will work for us,Nigeria stop developing after major general JTU agunyi ironsi introduced this unitary system of government.

We need to sit down and talk

You are right, we need to work on our constitution. Changes to our constitution will most likely affect the rich to the benefit of the poor. This is why it is so hard for any " Nigerian Ruler" to implement beneficial changes. We need to remove the current breed of elites and start from the scratch. This is the only hope for the common man.

Paperwhite:
Yet Sowore as a youth vigouriously campaigned for the catastrophic failure Nigeria have up there as a president.

To err is human, to forgive is divine. No one could have predicted things would be this bad. Even now, no one can tell if Sowore is going to be a disaster or not.

However, what we know is that Nigerians saw Jonathan as a disaster as Nigerians currently see Buhari as a disaster. I am of the strong opinion that failure should never be rewarded as such Buhari needs to be voted out.

Should we now vote for a confirmed thief who cannot even travel to the US or a youth that exudes hope.

trillville:

You are right, we need to work on our constitution. Changes to our constitution will most likely affect the rich to the benefit of the poor. This is why it is so hard for any " Nigerian Ruler" to implement beneficial changes. We need to remove the current breed of elites and start from the scratch. This is the only hope for the common man.

yeah

Sowore has my vote.

At least history will see my vote for him as my effort to retire the era of mindless looting by gerontocrats and their cronies.