₦airaland Forum

ogugwa1992:
...A closer look at the gap between Sowore’s public claims and verifiable facts, and what it reveals about trust, manipulation, and public opinion.



https://www.arewareportersng.com/the-bandage-with-no-wound/

Omoboricash:
Pls stop comparing Chief Gani Fawehinmi with Sowore. They are incomparable.
Chief was humqn right advocate, he fought for Nigeria and Nigerians without bias or sentiment.
Can u say the same with Sowore?

WizardOfNG:
Lol. Perhaps people who know doing that, I.e regular incarceration, will make Nigerians view them as "fearless defenders" of the helpless, hope-deprived and downtrodden masses.

In return you will then go and use your gullible fingers to thumb-print for them at election time same way you tight your fake pastors all the way to private jet and private University ownership.

Jakumo:
DeepSight my hat is off to you for this declaration you have made about religion that places you in the rarefied company of free thinkers like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. I would hazard a guess that less than 0.1% of Nigeria's adult population would identify as being non-religious, if asked about their faith. When asked about my religious leaning by a Nigerian, I claim Catholic despite never having set foot in any church, purely as a tactic of social convenience that enables me to side-step further interrogation.

In Nigerian culture, anyone who openly defies the norm of being either Christian or Muslim is regarded with a mixture of equal parts suspicion, loathing and puzzlement by the overwhelming majority who brandish the formalities of their religious observance like a cherished badge of honor, regardless of whether they are law abiding or criminal in their character and daily conduct.

Regarding the jailhouse rite-of-passage which deprived South Africa's Nelson Mandela of freedom for 27 years, and which saw the likes of Gani Fawehinmi, Femi Falana, and Wole Soyinka tossed into dungeons numerous times by various Nigerian military regimes going back decades, there can be no denying that such giants among men sacrificially placed their lives and liberty on the line for the greater good, and in furtherance of democracy's rights and freedoms, while bravely undeterred by the acceptance that they might never emerge from jailhouse captivity that often ensued without the luxury of a legitimate court trial or conviction.

While Mr. Sowore is no stranger to police custody and prison, thanks to his long history of agitating for one cause or another ever since he was a college student, the exact cause which inspires Sowore to repeatedly clash with law enforcement agencies TODAY, is far less easily categorized, now that Nigeria has embraced electoral democracy, than it was when Nigeria was lorded over by the whims of military despots who had no tolerance for freedom of speech or its attendant democratic aspirations.

In other words, it is not clear what Sowore hopes to accomplish by screaming at armed police officers wherever he goes in Nigeria, while angrily denouncing both the ruling party and the opposition party's leadership with equally agitated vitriol. Perhaps, the only explanation that makes sense would be that Sowore became, with the passage of time, little more than a PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINER who makes a living by hurling unfounded accusations left and right in a bid to draw the attention of Nigeria's political elite, with the hopes that those whose reputations stand to be tarnished by that perennial gadfly's ululations might choose to BUY Sowore's silence with cash under the table, even if it is understood by everyone that the allegations spouted by Sowore are largely figments of his over-active imagination.