₦airaland Forum

masterP042:
I think something is definitely wrong with our reasoning here in nigeria, okay, let's say he tried to bomb the church, should his name be the bone of contention?
Is this how we should react to a failed terror attack? We didn't even ask his sponsors, his network, how he was recruited into the act, etc. we are just after his name..
This name checking of a thing is a serious sign of tribalism and religious stereotyping. It's frequent here on nairaland. It's holding us as a people back on the way of progress. It shows this country is not really one, the marriage don scatter since 1967, we are just deceiving ourselves.
We should look beyond the tribalism and religious nepotism if we want progress.

Well said.

Tamkurou:
Have you not heard about Facebook hacking and profile editing?
We are no longer in stone age bro, and nobody is a kid to propaganda like this.

He claimed the account was created yesterday which is obviously not so. Facebook hacking and profile editing is a different issue. It annoys me alot when people cannot use simple logic to analyze situations like this. They would rather base their position on tribe, religion, and political sentiment.

id911:
The guy just registered on facebook the day preceding his bomb expedition. Hell Rufai, try again later with your propaganda

Did you go through the Facebook profile?
You would have said Elrufai bribed Facebook to allow him to backdate new posts to 2018 and above.

landforeast:
No 1 demand should be to restructure the country
That is the way to go
Someone cannot be reaping where he or she did not sow

It can be covered with this line
* Producing a new constitution for Nigeria by a democratic and people-led process involving open discussion, debate, and determination of proposals and suggestions by the working people in towns and villages, in factories, on farms, in the Diaspora, on school campuses, in neighbourhoods, market places, workplaces, mass media, social media, etc.

Davechuks360:
This totally makes no sense!!

Kindly explain how?

As a leading figure of the RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore continued his detention in DSS custody, the RevolutionNow organizer which include several CSO have vow to continue with the protest scheduled to start on Monday August 5 2019. They have also released the list of demands they are agitating against.

A Lagos-based lawyer and civil rights activist, Inibehe Effiong, said the government should focus on addressing the issues that informed the planned demonstration, rather than cracking down on citizens for exercising their rights to speech, association and assembly.

“We have a list of demands,” Mr Effiong said. “And everything borders around good governance.”

The protesters said the demand had been broken down into three phases, each of which contains a laundry of critical issues that must be addressed — failure over which the protest would not cease.

* First Bundle: End anti-people economic policies

* Second Bundle: End special privileges for the ruling class

* Third Bundle: Return political power and national wealth to the working people

The details of these bundles include:

First Bundle: End Anti-People Economic Policies:
* Return of fuel prices and electricity tariffs to their levels in 1999, the immediate repair of all the refineries, pipelines and fuel depots in Nigeria and, an end to the importation of fuel.

* End to estimated and inflated billing by the electricity distribution companies and to their extortion of money from consumers for transformers, poles, cables, etc.

* No devaluation of the Naira.

* End to the insecurity and constant bloodletting in the country but by methods that respect human rights and justice and the sack of the current set of service chiefs for their self-evident incompetence in their duties.

* Abolition of tuition fees and inflated service charges in all public universities and secondary schools.

* Immediate payment of the N30,000 minimum wage, with annual increases pegged to the rate of inflation and to the national average rate of profit of multinational corporations operating in Nigeria and of all local private companies employing more than 100 workers (irrespective of the contract status of such workers).

* The immediate release of all political prisoners, including Shi’ite leader Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife, and an immediate stop to the persecution of people based on their political or religious beliefs or their ethnicity.

* The immediate payment of all outstanding salaries of workers and pensions of retirees.

* The immediate implementation of all agreements the government and private sector employers have signed with the trade unions at all levels and in all sectors.

* A massive public works and services program in every sector and level of the economy as well as in the urban and rural areas to provide employment for unemployed youths.

Second Bundle: End Special Privileges for the Ruling Class:
* All public officials in elective, appointive, or senior administrative positions must be banned from educating their children or dependants in private schools in Nigeria or in schools in foreign countries.

* These officials, their immediate family, and their dependants must be banned also from obtaining healthcare in private hospitals in Nigeria or in hospitals in foreign countries.

* These officials must also receive basic salaries and allowances not higher than those received by the highest paid professors in public Nigerian universities.

* An immediate end to the use of police or military personnel as private security guards for these officials.

* Except for the president and governors, these officials and their immediate family must not live in class-exclusive estates or other similar places of residence but among the working people who they serve.

Third Bundle: Return Political Power and National Wealth to the Working People:
* The complete and uncompensated repossession by the working people of all national resources stolen by the ruling class and their foreign masters through the fraudulent privatisation of public resources since 1986.

* The complete and uncompensated seizure by the working people of all private wealth accumulated by public officials (as defined above) during and after their tenure of service whose value exceeds their total lawful and demonstrable income during and after that tenure.

* The complete socialisation of all land in the country and declaration of access to land as a basic right, by this means to break the monopoly of the ruling class on ownership and access to land in the country and thus make land available to the poor who live by farming and those who need to build their own houses.

* To break the stranglehold of the ruling class on political power by banning from politics all who have stolen the people’s money and property since 1960 and those who have been in elective or appointive political office for more at any time before and since 1999, ending the influence of money and god-fathers in politics, imposing term-limits for national and state lawmakers, completely liberating local governments from state government control, returning power from the national and state levels to governing councils controlled by citizens at the town, city, and village levels, etc.

* To reduce the cost of governance by abolishing the Senate, thus establishing a uni-cameral legislature with only the House of Representatives; and by abolishing constituency projects to end the theft of public money through such projects.

* Abolishing the death penalty except for the embezzling or privatisation of the public wealth.

* Producing a new constitution for Nigeria by a democratic and people-led process involving open discussion, debate, and determination of proposals and suggestions by the working people in towns and villages, in factories, on farms, in the Diaspora, on school campuses, in neighbourhoods, market places, workplaces, mass media, social media, etc.

Source: https://www.newsheadlines.com.ng/latest-nigeria-news-today/2019/08/03/revolutionnow-organizer-releases-list-of-demands-vow-to-go-ahead-with-protest

Nice one. I just voted for him
We are wasting our wisely on AAC.

Change the course of history by voting for a new candidate with track record of fighting for what is right consistently for close to 30 years. We cannot afford to allow those who destroyed our past to continue or return back to power.

A VOTE FOR PDP IS A VOTE FOR APC AND A VOTE APC IS A VOTE FOR PDP. It is very easy to decamp from APC to PDP and vice versa.
If PDP wins the 2019 Election, APC members will decamp to PDP. If APC wins the 2019 Election, PDP members will decamp to APC. Then the suffering, hunger, and killings continues.
Vote for an alternative party.

SOWORE

No to Atiku
No to Buhari

APC = PDP
BUHARI = ATIKU
VOTE FOR AAC

NO TO BUHARI
NO TO ATIKU
WE HAVE A BETTER ALTERNATIVE

Let us all vote for Omoyele Sowore

Passionate888:
What I was trying to say is that I don't know much about Sowore apart from Sahara Reporters and that he once attended Unilag. @bolded, what has he done to reduce the corruption in his administration?

Read more about his qualities using the link below
https://sowore2019.org/allard-prize-competition-our-step-by-step-guide-to-success/

id911:
I'm surprised people can't see this. Sowore is paid to waste votes of youth who voted for Buhari but don't want to vote him again due to his poor performance so that they wouldn't give those votes to Atiku. I'm 100% sure of this

Show me one proof that we was paid by Buhari to split votes.

Voting for either APC or PDP is a waste of vote. Both parties have promised to provide electricity but they both failed. Why vote for a party that will end not fulfilling any of its promises.

A VOTE FOR PDP IS A VOTE FOR APC AND A VOTE APC IS A VOTE FOR PDP. It is very easy to decamp from APC to PDP and vice versa.
If PDP wins the 2019 Election, APC members will decamp to PDP. If APC wins the 2019 Election, PDP members will decamp to APC. Then the suffering, hunger, and killings continues.
Vote for an alternative political party.

A VOTE FOR PDP IS A VOTE FOR APC AND A VOTE APC IS A VOTE FOR PDP. It is very easy to decamp from APC to PDP and vice versa.
If PDP wins the 2019 Election, APC members will decamp to PDP. If APC wins the 2019 Election, PDP members will decamp to APC. Then the suffering, hunger, and killings continues.
Vote for an alternative party.

madridsta007:
It was The Cable Newspapers, one of the few reputable online newspapers we have in Nigeria. Sowore knows the business well. If it was wrongly quoted, he would have easily sued.

Please let’s stop giving excuses for Sowore. I always cringe when I see people give excuses for leaders/ would-be-leaders. In Sowore’s US it never happens! Fox News hosts are always bashed if they give excuses for Trump that they had to stop.

This is the link to the video, you can watch it and listen for where he made that statement


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJCNWuG6-ic&t=352s

As regards sueing the news platform, you should know that many news platform have carelessly misquoted Sowore in many cases. And he has never for once taken them to court. He only comes out deny such allegations whenever he is asked in an interview mostly on TV's and radio stations. There's a news platform came out to say "Fela Durotoye defeated Sowore in the PACT( PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRANTS COMING TOGETHER ) contest" which was outrightly false because he never participated in the PACT election.

There are several videos where people on the streets, town hall meetings accused him of supporting BUHARI in 2015 and even a puppet to Bola Tinubu, his response has always been he never supported any of these people. He even went ahead to ask the accusers to show an evidence where he supported Buhari or Bola Tinubu.

As per giving excuses, I am not excusing Sowore for wrong doing I am just trying to let you know he never supported Buhari which there is no substantial evidence to prove otherwise. Sowore is definitely not perfect, he has his own downsides. With the current situation of things, I can say he is the best alternative to Buhari, Atiku and other presidential candidates. We should try everything possible to promote and encourage him and not to pull him down. He has always wanted the best thing to happen to this country. However, that does not rule out the fact that we shouldn't correct him or constructively criticize him whenever he isn't getting it right.

madridsta007:
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Lol. If he didn’t believe or trusted Buhari, then he would simply say, “many people believed and trusted Buhari...”

Not, “us.” By “us”, he humbly put himself amongst the believers and Buhari-trusted ones. Or do you have English comprehension issues? What are you trying to obfuscate? If you knew who I am, you wouldn’t try to play obfuscation of semantics with me, trust me

Writing this long epistle on behalf of Sowore who is a confessed Buharist and whose Sahara Reporters was a pro-APC mouthpiece is just funny. I’m surprised that this is a question— is that how far in post-truthism Nigeria has gone? He was a Buharist, Atiku too as well, and these guys showed a terrible understanding of history and hence judgement and should stay clear of leadership.

The source you quoted claimed that he made this statement at the Montreal town hall meeting which I watched live. I had to even watch it all over again there is no where he said

"Many of us believed and trusted President Buhari when he promised change, unfortunately not much changed under his leadership" or anything related to that.

Regarding the "many of us" statement, you got the interpretation right, but you should also know that sometimes there are ways by which speakers carry their audience along their speeches by making themselves part of the people that made a mistake. Like when one says

"We have been voting for thieves in this country"

In literal sense, it means the speaker was part of the people voting for thieves. But contextually or in reality, the speaker might not have even participated in the process at all. He just made that statement so as not to belittle his audience.

Hope you get the point, the kind of proof I want you provide is where he asked people to vote for Buhari or campaigned for him. If he had done so, you would have seen a tweet, interview or Facebook post where he said it.

Regarding the long epistle, I just want you see his position when it comes to shaping the democracy of this country and how there is no way he could have believed or trusted Buhari.

madridsta007:
I hope this helps you.
The historical evidence of Buhari’s incompetence at every level and his bigoted utterances are staggering. If you still, despite these, trusted, supported, enabled, Buhari in 2015, you are a Buharist and you posses a terrible sense of history and judgment.

Not sure this should be an argument.

Hope you didn't just draw your conclusion based on the headline. The line that might have somehow justified the headline is

"Many of us believed and trusted President Buhari when he promised change, unfortunately not much changed under his leadership".

The phrase, "many of us" does not mean he was part of those people that believed and trusted Buhari. He was just referring to the majority of the Nigerian populace who believed in Buhari which he wasn't part of.

If you have read Sowore's history very well. Sowore has always been an antagonist to bad leadership. The list below proves Sowore's stand when it comes to Nigeria's democracy.

1. During his University days, he was against the dictatorship rule of Babangida government. Despite the fact that he never supported or voted for Abiola in 1993 because he knows fully well about MKO's past he stood up for him when the June 12 election was eventually annulled by Babangida. The election was reportedly to be the most free and fair election we have ever had. As the SUG president at that time, he mobilised students and youths to help in protesting against the annulment of the election. Will you now say he campaigned for Abiola to become president just because he was against IBB if Abiola turned out to be a bad president. Does protesting against the rot in Babangida regime mean an automatic endorsement of Abiola?

2. When Yaradua was brain dead in Saudi Arabia, his cabals were trying to prevent Jonathan from taking his rightful position as president. Sowore did everything possible to expose all the malfeasance of these cabals to the world through Saharareporters till Jonathan was sworn in as the president. Would you say Sowore was the one that imposed Jonathan on us?

3. When Jonathan became president, he allowed the people in his administration to perpertrate different forms of corruption. Saharareporters job has always been to expose any case of corruption going on in the government. They did exposed the corruption in Jonathan's government. During the build up to the 2015 election, the PDP were so arrogant because they believed there was no way an incumbent can lose an election to an opposition. APC took advantage of the information released by Saharareporters to make thier party look like an Angel to PDP. To the extent that many people decided to vote anything but Jonathan, the same mistake they are trying to make now. APC did everything possible to package Buhari like a Messiah and many people fell for it. The people failed to even look out for a credible alternative because they believed so much on the transactional structures of the established political parties. Structures which were built with stolen monies and have to be recouped when the APC got to power. With Sowore's moral principles of not voting or supporting an MKO at the June 12 elections, you think he would have supported Buhari not alone campaigned for him or tell people to vote for him.

4. Now that 2019 elections is in the corner, there are so many exposé he has done on this present administration which the PDP have leveraged on. Those people that supported Buhari just because they wanted Jonathan out can now see that the APC is also corrupt. Let's say Sowore is not contesting for president, the way Saharareporters have been publishing the gaffes and errors of Buhari due to old age and probably poor health recently plus all the previous exposed corruption cases in the APC government. The PDP would have founded it very easy to make Atiku look like an angel just as the APC did it 2015. If Atiku becomes the president and turned out to be a bad leader, will you say Sowore believed in him and asked people to vote for him?

From the above analysis, you can deduce the role Sowore plays when it comes to Nigerian politics. There is no proof where he supported or asked people to vote for Buhari in 2015.

gbengaabiola:
Hum , I love his courage , but sir start from chairman b4 the number one post

But Atiku never started from chairmanship position.

Praktikals:
We can't afford to do trial and error now. We need a tested and trusted hand. Sowore should go and try his luck in Ondo, his home town.
Buhari we know, Buhari we trust. Atiku only wants to come and sell NNPC to his proxies

Trial and Error? With someone who has been consistently fighting for the well-being of this country for close to 30 years.

madridsta007:
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Do your own research. It’s called intellectual laziness which you should avoid.

You are the intellectually lazy one here, who is too lazy to provide me with a proof where he campaigned or asked people to vote for Buhari.

Austinmiles:
The 17 quality: He should get Atikulated and not walk to the next level so that nigeria will'work again'

Did Atiku or Buhari start from their village?

OyiboOyibo:
cool CV but his time has not come.... #Atikulate now

The oppressors shouldn't be the one to declare the date of our freedom. The time to be free is NOW.

ogawisdom:
Voting for that idiot is as good as voting for Buhari

He can't even win his LGA against a dead buhari..

Only Atiku can challenge Buhari

Challenge Buhari and then do what. Steal all what's left in this country, then the poverty, hunger, suffering, and killings continue. Nigerian people are the ones who can challenge Buhari, not Atiku.

madridsta007:
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He is a Nigerian with a terrible sense of history and a terrible sense of judgement. That makes him flawed for any leadership position— even Vice Chairman of a local government.

Any Buharist, like Sowore who, despite the avalanche of documents and historical records informing readers of the incompetence and draconian nature of Buhari and still voted and campaigned for him believing in the so-called “change” has a terrible sense of judgement and should never come close to any leadership position.

In the U.K. and US past voting habits of leaders and people are used to give them or deny tn positions. It should be the same here in Nigeria. I’m sure US-based Sowore will agree.

Show me one proof where Sowore asked people to vote for Buhari or where he campaigned for Buhari

A WASTED IS A VOTE FOR EITHER ATIKU OR BUHARI when we have a superior alternative.