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A call by National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has resurfaced in the heat of the debate on the semantics of the use #RevolutionNow for the organisation of series of protests against bad governance in Nigeria.
Tinubu made the call five years ago on September 29, 2014, in a statement titled, 'A Return to Decency'.
Omoyele Sowore, human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner was abducted Gestapo-style and taken to Abuja by the Department of State Services (DSS) on August 3, 2019, for using the phrase #RevolutionNow to plan peaceful demonstrations.
Tinubu's comments which were reported in national newspapers such as The Punch, DailyPost, PM News, The Nation as well as other news platforms.
When SaharaReporters conducted research on Wednesday, however, The Punch, The Nation, and DailyPost had deleted the online version of the story.
But Punch made the error of leaving behind a 2014 tweet which it posted after publishing the story on Twitter.
The story was tweeted on the verified Punch Newspaper Twitter page, @MobilePunch, at exactly 12:36 pm on September 30, 2014.
The 2014 call by the leader of the APC did not attract operatives of the DSS and was not regarded by the Goodluck Jonathan administration as a treasonable felony.
In the report, Tinubu described the 16 years of PDP rule at the federal level as a period of steady decline into disaster.
He said, “The longer they rule, the less benefit the people derive."
The Punch report quoted Tinubu as saying, "Nigeria now needs a ‘common sense revolution', a revolution that calls forth a return to decency, probity, transparency of process and fairness in outcome.“
"This is done not by subterfuge, divide and rule and turning Nigeria in a field of discord or a street of broken institutions.
"It is accomplished by honouring the principles of democratic good governance and economic justice.
"It is done by persuading the people they are better off as one instead of better off tearing at one another’s throats.“Nigerians should be prepared for change.
"We must rescue Nigeria from those set to cause it irreparable harm. The change I talk about is the only route to our deliverance from 16 years of the PDP locusts."

He described Jonathan’s transformation agenda as an avenue to siphon funds through a dubious blueprint.
Tinubu stated, “They do not have a national blueprint or vision. They do have a blueprint and vision for excessive self-enrichment.
"Their equation is simple: You work, they feast. You toil, they grow fat. You seek a decent wage; they pilfer the collective treasury to enjoy a king’s ransom.”
Other popular Nigerians in the past had also called for a revolution.
On November 30, 2018, Kingsley Moghalu, presidential candidate of the Young Progressives Party in 2019 in an interview with The Guardian called for young people to "rise up for a revolution in 2019".
Popular Nigerian televangelist, Tunde Bakare, and running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential election on April 3, 2016, called for a revolution to correct the current "leakages in government".
In a story reported by The Punch, Bakare had said: “While appreciating the positive developments in our democratic experience, especially the attempts by past and current governments to eliminate systemic leakages, I shall seek to prove that, by a fair preponderance of the credible evidence, the state of the nation calls for a revolution.
“This is a revolution that transcends politics or policies; a revolution that means far more than any change of government; a revolution that means a radical reformation of values as they impact upon the social, economic and political landscapes of our nation."
On May 15, 2019, the Nigerian senate debated a "poverty-triggered revolution in the country" following a motion by Senator Chukwuka Utazi.
In a report by PremiumTimes, Utazi had affirmed: “The Senate recognises that what we are witnessing today is a culmination of long years

http://saharareporters.com/2019/08/07/tinubus-call-revolution-2014-resurfaces-fg-detains-sowore-same-act

Animal farm ,jagaban is greater than Nigeria then

We have a weakling as a president then

But now Nigeria is greater than sowore

We have a dictator as a president now






My opinion though

Nigeria will never progress with the high number of hypocrites and people of no morals holding positions

Punch newspapers really let a lot of her admirers down yday when they attempted to kill d evidence of Tinubu calling for a revolution. For those of u that will quote d adjectival 'common sense attached to it must be reminded that d key word is revolution. Buhari is a beast and intolerant to dissenting opinions but very intransigent mindset often afraid of his own shadow. A critical appraisal of d terms of reference of d Tinubu common sense revolution shows clearly they are akin to Sowore version so why clamp down on him. Without d incarceration of Sowore believe me that protest would have come n gone without much grandeur but as usual Buhari always fall for d trap often employed by activists.
Who calls for a revolution as explained out by d overzealous DSS and gives advance notice and without arms?

It’s like they don’t teach comprehension again in schools. Where in any of the quotes up there did BAT call for a violent overthrow(& that’s what a revolution is) of govt like Sowore did? Where again did Tinubu declare an expiration date for the DSS?

Nigerians love to copy, but a times we tend to copy without learning first! No successful revolution starts out with that title, long-standing enduring protests lead to it!

Hypocritical APC

Why do you people compare the behaviour of a President that has a PhD with one that live his life fiddling and sucking cow breast? Cows are lawless animal that can't respect people's rights.

olisaEze:
It’s like they don’t teach comprehension again in schools. Where in any of the quotes up there did BAT call for a violent overthrow(& that’s what a revolution is) of govt like Sowore did? Where again did Tinubu declare an expiration date for the DSS?

Nigerians love to copy, but a times we tend to copy without learning first! No successful revolution starts out with that title, long-standing enduring protests lead to it!

Are u trying to crack a joke or are u really such a dummy ?

mrvitalis:
Are u trying to crack a joke or are u really such a dummy ?

Usually I don’t reply stupid mentions, but let me make an exception here. Are u lacking in comprehensive skills? Where in that write up did Bola Tinubu call for a violent overthrow of govt? Don’t be an example of what Soyinka has described as FTC youths, that’ll really be disappointing.

olisaEze:
Usually I don’t reply stupid mentions, but let me make an exception here. Are u lacking in comprehensive skills? Where in that write up did Bola Tinubu call for a violent overthrow of govt? Don’t be an example of what Soyinka has described as FTC youths, that’ll really be disappointing.

You don't respond to every post here, Tinubu only called for commonsense revolution and how the people can use their votes to vote out PDP and not coming into the street unlike Sowore.
Some of them would just see a topic and instead of making more research, they rush in so as to be the FTC exactly as you quoted from Soyinka

Yyeske:
You don't respond to every post here, Tinubu only called for commonsense revolution and how the people can use their votes to vote out PDP and not coming into the street unlike Sowore.
Some of them would just see a topic and instead of making more research, they rush in so as to be the FTC exactly as you quoted from Soyinka

so, how is peaceful street protest against bad governance not a common sense revolution like people using their votes?
Don't you think a peaceful protest against bad governance is aimed at revolutionising ill government policies to a better one and not necessarily unseating the government of the day?

what a shame

What a pitiable bisma bisma

From Emilokan to Ebilokan..