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Politics / Re: Pictures From Omoyele Sowore 2019 Take It Back, Town Hall Meeting In NY City by sowore2019: 12:52pm On May 07, 2018
Politics / Pictures From Omoyele Sowore 2019 Take It Back, Town Hall Meeting In NY City by sowore2019: 12:40pm On May 07, 2018
Nigerians in the US storm Omoyele Sowore 2019 Take it Back, Town Hall Meeting in NY City

New York City DISRUPTeD! New York Town Hall Meeting was Fantastic!!! Streaming LIVE on Facebook, we had 29,000 people watching us live all over the world!!! Nigerians are ready to #TakeItBack! Are you?
#HurricaneSowore is gaining speed and one by one, Nigerians are starting to see that we are serious and are ready to take our country back! We are here, #makingadifference!

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Politics / Re: Sai Buhari !! We Must First Be Good Citizens Before We Blame Leaders by sowore2019: 11:38am On May 04, 2018
A good leaders breeds good citizens, corrupt leadership begat corrupt followers as the case in Nigeria.
Politics / Re: Sowore: Tinubu, Others Used To Hide While We Faced The Military In The 90's by sowore2019: 8:34am On May 04, 2018
Tinubu foot soilders on Nairaland are angry, they hate hearing the truth about their benefactor.

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Politics / Re: Sowore: Tinubu, Others Used To Hide While We Faced The Military In The 90's by sowore2019: 8:21am On May 04, 2018
Sowore is only responding to the misconception about his relationship with Tinubu.

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 8:17pm On May 03, 2018
omohayek:

As for Sowore's idea, if its patent absurdity isn't obvious to you, I wonder just how much exposure to economics or business you've had, because it shouldn't really need spelling out. Do professors, provosts and university chancellors have any particular expertise in the management of oil wells, or in doing deals with international energy companies like Total, Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell or the like? What happens to the universities' funding as oil prices radically fluctuate, or the oil in the wells starts to run out? Has there been anywhere in the world in which such an idea has been tried and shown to work? What are all those university officials supposed to do if/when the next set of "militants" decides to strike at the oil wells they've been given, or at the pipes leading away from them? And besides all of these questions, aren't these university officials Nigerians like the rest of us, subject to the same temptations to embezzle funds to fund luxurious private lifestyles? What will stop them from awarding themselves or their front-men overpriced contracts through which they can siphon millions of dollars abroad, as we've seen repeatedly with so many Nigerian politicians over the years?

All your defense has been encapsulate here, can you tell me the level of expertise the like of Alhaji Mai Daribe, TY Danjuma, Col. Sanni Bello etc has in oil exploration before they were awarded oil blocs? While Sowore is not saying they will be funded wholly from the oil wells, the money that could have gone to all these private pocket can be used by the universities to augment their subvention.

This will be a good read for you
(Nigerian Bulletin)- The process of sharing Nigeria’s oil block national cake is as fraudulent now as when Ibrahim Babangida started the process of discretionary allocation of oil blocks to indigenous firms. Discretionary allocation of oil blocks entails that a president can reward a mistress who performs wonderfully with an oil block with capacity for cumulative yield of over $20 billion dollars without recourse to any process outside of manhood attachments. Babangida, Abacha, Abdulsalami and Obasanjo awarded discretionary oil blocks to friends, associates, family members, party chieftains, security chiefs and all categories of bootlickers, spokespersons and cult members without any laid down procedures. The recipients of such oil blocks will get funds from ever willing offshore financiers and partners to graciously settle the benefactors, the awarders, facilitators and the Commander-in-Chief through fronts.
These settlements mostly paid into foreign accounts runs into hundreds of millions of dollars according to the potential yield of the block. Sometimes, the awarder (sharer of national cake and direct intermediaries) demand additional stakes in the bidding company. The awarder sends fronts as part of the directorship and management of the bidding firms without leaving a link to them. That is how the oil block national cake is distributed to a few Nigerians. Signature bonuses which are paid when an investor successfully bids, wins and signs agreement with the petroleum ministry, running into tens of millions and sometimes hundreds of millions of naira ,is often waived off. There is actually no waiver; rather a diversion of what would have been paid to government t coffers is paid into private purse as appreciation gifts. That is why those in the Petroleum Ministry dread retirement as though it signifies going to hell fire. No matter how little your influence, something substantial must enter your hands especially in hard currency.
The nation loses billions of dollars in diverted revenue whenever any round of auction occurs. OML 110 with high yield OBE oil fields was given Cavendish Petroleum owned by Alhaji Mai Daribe, the Borno Patriarch in 1996 by Sanni Abacha. OBE oil field has estimated over 500 million barrels of oil. In layman’s language and using average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel, translates to $50 billion dollars worth of oil reserve. When you remove the taxes, royalties and sundry duties worth about 60% of the reserve payable over time you get about $20billion dollars worth of oil in the hands of a family.
OPL 246 was awarded to SAPETRO, a company owned by General Theophilus Danjuma, by Sanni Abacha in 1998. Akpo condensate exports about 300,000 barrels of crude daily.
OML 112 and OML 117 were awarded to AMNI International Petroleum Development Company owned by Colonel Sanni Bello in 1999. Sanni Bello is an inlaw to Abdulsalami Abubakar, former Head of State of Nigeria.
OML 115, OLDWOK Field and EBOK field was awarded to Alhaji Mohammed Indimi from Niger State. Indimi is an inlaw to former Military President Ibrahim Babangida. OML 215 is operated by Nor East Petroleum Limited owned by Alhaji Saleh Mohammed Gambo. OML 108 is operated by Express Petroleum Company Limited is owned by Alhaji Aminu Dantata.
OML II3 allocated to Yinka Folawiyo Pet Ltd is owned by Alhaji W.I. folawiyo. ASUOKPU/UMUTU marginal oil fields is operated by Seplat Petroleum. Seplat is owned by Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, cousin to the Central Bank Governor Lamido Sanusi. This oil field has the capacity of 300,000 barrels of oil daily. This translates to $30million dollars daily at average benchmark of $100 dollars per barrel. Deducting all sundry taxes, royalties etc , this field can yield $12billion dollars daily for the owners. Intel owned by Atiku, Yarádua and Ado Bayero has substantial stakes in Nigeria’s oil exploration industry both in Nigeria and Principe and Sao Tome.
AMNI owns two oil blocks OML 112 and OML 117 which it runs Afren plc and Vitol has substantial stakes in oil blocks. Afren plc is operating EBOK oil fields in OML 67. Vitol lifts 300,000 barrels of Nigerian oil daily. Rilwanu Lukman, former OPEC Chairman has stakes in all these named three companies. OPL 245 was awarded to Malabu Oil& Gas Company by Sanni Abacha. Dan Etete, Abacha’s oil minister owns Malabu Oil.

In 2000, Vice President Atiku Abubakar convinced Obasanjo to revoke OPL 245 given to Malabu Oil. Etete had earlier rejected Atiku’s demand for substantial stakes in the high yield OPL 245 and it attracted the venom of Ota Majesty who revoked the licence. However, in 2006, Obasanjo had mercy on Dan Etete and gave him back his oil block worth over $20 billion dollars. OPL 289 and OPL 233 was awarded during Obasanjo era to Peter Odili fronts, Cleanwater Consortium, consisting of Clenwater Refinery and RivGas Petroleum and Gas Company. Odili’s brother in law, Okey Ezenwa manages the consortium as Vice Chairman. OPL 286 is managed by Focus Energy in partnership with BG Group, a British oil concern. Andy Uba has stakes in Focus Energy and his modus operandi is such that you can never see his name in any listings yet he controls OPL and OML through proxies. OPL 291 was awarded to Starcrest Energy Nigeria Limited, owned by Emeka Offor by Obasanjo .
Immediately after the award, Starcrest sold the oil block to Addax Petroleum Development Company Limited (ADDAX) Addax paid Sir Emeka Offor a farming fee of $35million dollars and still paid the signature bonus to the government. Emeka Offor still retains stake in ADDAX operations in Nigeria. Mike Adenuga’s Conoil is the oldest indigenous oil exploration industry in Nigeria. Conoil has six oil blocks and exports above 200,000 barrels of crude daily.
The oil block national cake sharing fiesta could take twists according to the mood of the Commander-in –Chief at the particular time. In 2006, Obasanjo revoked OPL 246 which Abacha gave to Danjuma because he refused to support the tenure elongation bid of the Ota Majesty. In 2000, Obasanjo had earlier revoked OPL 241 given to Dan Etete under the advice Atiku. However, when the Obasanjo-Atiku faceoff started, the Ota Majesty made a u-turn and handed back the oil block to Etete. During the time of Late President Yarádua , a panel headed by Olusegun Ogunjana was set up to investigate the level of transparency in the award of oil blocks.
The panel recommended that 25 oil blocks awarded by the Obasanjo be revoked because the manner they were obtained failed to meet the best practices in the industry. Sadiq Mahmood, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Petroleum endorsed the report to then president with all its recommendations. As a result of the report Yarádua revoked eleven oil blocks. In April 2011 Mike Adenuga attempted to buy Shell’s OML 30 for $1.2 billion dollars. The Minister for Petroleum and Nigeria’s most powerful woman refused the sale of the OML30 to Adenuga citing national interest. This block was later sold to Heritage Oil for $800 million dollars eleven months later. This oil block business is so lucrative that Danjuma’s Sapetro divested of its investment in Akpo condensate for $1billion dollars. This business is second to none in Nigeria.
That is why any attempt to investigate the activities in this sector will always be futile. The money is so much that they give bribes in millions of dollars. A birthday gift or child naming gift from an oil block owner to a government official could be as paltry as $2million dollars, and if the official’s father died, the condolence gift could reach mere $3 million dollars. When they want to bribe legislators, it is in millions of dollars and any ongoing investigation ends within weeks.
They are so confident that with excess money they can buy up Nigeria and they are succeeding. In the name of competitive bidding, which Obasanjo introduced in 2005, Officials bring companies overnight and through processes best described as secretive and voodooist they award blocks to party faithful, fronts and phoney companies.
During the third term agenda, Obasanjo was deceived that the allocation of oil block to party faithfuls is to fund the third term agenda. With the failure of the third term, the beneficiaries went home with their fortunes and thanked God or Allah for buttering their bread. Senator Andy Uba co ordinate the award of the last rounds of oil block by Obasanjo in 2005 and 2007. The then minister of petroleum, Edwin Daukoru was a mere errand boy who took instructions from the presidential aide.
The regime of President Goodluck is not showing any signs of changing the status quo. Controversies have trailed the activities of the Minister of Petroleum and many players in the Industry accuse her of demanding stakes from every oil deal. It is hoped that President Goodluck Jonathan will remember his transformational promise to Nigerians and endeavour to face the hawks in the oil industry. The angst in the air is so much that if this monster of illegal allocation of oil block is not addressed, the much touted revolution could begin all of a sudden and all who condoned this illegality at the expense of hungry Nigerians may have nowhere to hide.
The religious leaders should tell these oil block beneficiaries, awarders, fronts, brokers and all involved in short changing the Nigerian people to find means or returning all these back to the Nigerian people, through massive development projects. The voice of impoverished Nigerians is crying daily and if care is not taken the God who delivered Nigeria from Abacha dark days will visit them with calamities untold. With the rot in this oil block awarding system and other loot all over the Nigerian nation, something worse than revolution may happen.
Read more: https://www.naija.ng/429772-how-ibb-obasanjo-abacha-shared-nigerias-oil-wells.html#429772

Additional read:
Folorunsho Alakija reveals how she got oil bloc that made her a billionaire
http://dailypost.ng/2018/02/24/folorunsho-alakija-reveals-got-oil-bloc-made-billionaire/

How we award oil blocks - FG
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/how-we-award-oil-blocks-fg/
Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:59pm On May 03, 2018
Acidosis:
Which oil well? Lol


You think by becoming a president, you can withdraw licenses from current owners of oil wells? Lmao!
Watch the video, it's obvious you didn't.
Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:58pm On May 03, 2018
CSTR1003:

Are you going to give every university an oil well? We have over a 100 universities. That would be unfeasible because oil wells don't all have the same oil bearing capacities.

What have the university council done with the responsibility they have been given? All the billions allocated over the years.
They have been as corrupt as the alakijas.

Funds need to be utilised at the lowest level of bureaucracy and corruption for it to be effective in Nigeria.
Sowore is talking about federal universities and not all, also the governing council are consituted body under authority of the government, they can easily be monitored and prosecuted if found wanting unlike an individual.
Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:51pm On May 03, 2018
SLIDEwaxie:
You this boy, come here.

I no tell you make u no try to pull a Trump on Nigerians?

You sha wan waste your money...

Aren't you tired of the slavery by the elites or are you among them? We should translate our anger on how things are being run into actions. These people we are talking about are not jinn.

Support #Takeitback movement

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:42pm On May 03, 2018
CSTR1003:

The viable oil wells you want to give the university should remain under the control of the govt.
And funds from those dedicated oil wells should be pumped into the education sector via the independent body of experts.

On no account, should universities control oil wells.
But they are currently not under government control, it has been allocated to the Alakija's, Danjuma etc and these people have made so much money that they do not know what to do with it again.
There's no need for any independent body of experts, that's why we have the University council.

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:30pm On May 03, 2018
CSTR1003:
Complete and utter nonsense.

Where in the world is that done? The universities will simply plung into anarchy and a free for all fight for wealth worse than anything we have seen.

Improve the funding to the university by setting up an independent body of incorruptible experts in each geo political zone, whose job will be to get funds from the FG, liase with the universities on areas of technical needs, consult with the best tertiary institutions in Europe and North America, and then gradually buy when necessary or copy their system with respect to technologies, staff and student welfare, and academics, to plug the technical loopholes in our education system .

There should be visible accomplishments every year in that regard.

By the time this is faithfully carried out in 5-10 years, we will start seeing visible improvement.

In 20 years under that system ,and we will be approaching world class standards.

But it takes planning, foresight, integrity and dedication, and Nigeria is not good at that.

Because it hasn't been done elsewhere doesn't mean we cannot do it.
From the bolded, how will the so called expert get the funding from FG? when the government is already complaining of insufficient funds. Don't forget that many universities are already venturing in other businesses to augment FG subvention, what will be wrong if they are allocated a viable oil well that will provide enough fund to run the school and relieves government and parent of students rather than just enriching an individual.
On your claim of anarchy in the system, VC's and university council are appointed by the government with a tenure, they can easily be dealt with, a recent example is what happened at FUNAAB, the VC and council chairman were removed and arrainged.
Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:04pm On May 03, 2018
CodeTemplar:

Then be prepared to give wells to Health sector, state governors, Power ministry etc
Is that your proposal?

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 3:02pm On May 03, 2018
omohayek:
Another nonsensical proposal that indicates Sowore doesn’t have the first clue about economics or governance, and is simply making things up on the hoof without even bothering to consult expert opinion. Nothing I have heard from Sowore so far indicates he’d be any better than Buhari if he managed by some miracle to win the Presidential elections.

Why won’t any of the many highly qualified Nigerians in or outside of the country step forward to seek the job? Nigeria badly needs a leader who has a clue and is humble enough to recognise where he needs specialist help. Instead we’re currently stuck with a geriatric, an economically ignorant “youth” of 47, and several recycled looters in the PDP.
Calm down, why not take time out to highlight what is wrong with that proposal rather than mixing thing up. Tell us why it is economically sound to allocate such oil wells to individuals rather than universities or oil producing communities.

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 2:46pm On May 03, 2018
Ofodirinwa:
Sowore is a worst human being than Buhari. Happy that only the people in the sahara reporters office support him
I'm sure you are smart, provide a proof to backup your claim?

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 2:34pm On May 03, 2018
CodeTemplar:
Off course there are commercially unviable wells that can be given to institution for research purposes.
What will be wrong if they are given the commercial viable ones for funding purposes?

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Politics / Re: Buhari In ‘Technical Stopover’ In London - Presidency Says by sowore2019: 2:26pm On May 03, 2018
Buhari lacks the capacity to govern Nigeria, both mentally and physically. Nigeria need a New Order

#Takeitback #Sowore2019

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 1:57pm On May 03, 2018
MicheyJ1:
Dead on Arrival. He wouldn't even win one Yoruba state not to talk of other zones. He thinks campaigns are done on social media and not on the streets ? The average Nigerian doesn't even know he exists.

Do you know the number of cities and town he has visited within the space of one month? Watch the video below


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbvtvXVTVks

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 1:55pm On May 03, 2018
whitebeard:
No

No

No

No

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Do u have any idea how corrupt some VC and staff of universities are..u now what to give them oil well..!!!

No

No

No

The oil is for Nigeria.. Not for a school abeg..!!

Who own and attend those schools? Togolese? or how has the wealth made from oil wells by Danjuma, Alakija, Atiku and the rest affect your life?

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Politics / Re: I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 1:51pm On May 03, 2018
Funding won't be an issue if each Federal Universities has an oil well rather than giving same to individuals that have amassed so much money that they do not know what to do with it again.

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Politics / I Will Allocate Oil Wells To Universities & Oil Producing Communities - Sowore by sowore2019: 1:47pm On May 03, 2018
Presidential aspirant Omoyele Sowore has vow to discontinued the allocation of oil wells to individuals if he become the President in 2019. In an online interaction, Sowore said universities, oil producing communities and other national institutions who rely on the FG finances will be allocated oil wells. Hear his argument.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzfJs8dICd0

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Politics / Re: Codeine Abuse Is The Handiwork Of A Hopeless Economy – Shehu Sani by sowore2019: 11:38am On May 03, 2018
Senator Shehu Sani is very right, an idle mind is the devil workshop. The generation of leaders (Buhari, OBJ, IBB etc) that created this rots need to be butted out.

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Politics / Re: Yele Sowore: The Latest Comedian In Town By Sanyaolu Juwon by sowore2019: 11:35am On May 03, 2018
Early philosophers made us understand that history occurs in two ways; first as a tragedy and then as a farce. It is for the sake of the above introduction that I would humbly seek the permission of readers and your un-daunting patience to allow me lay a very important but elaborative premise that would allow us picture our true situation as a people who intends to be free and eventually condemn the above publication to the dustbin of history.

Several months before the 2015 general elections, I had multiple engagements with scores of partisan movements most of whom had clear affiliations with either the ruling People’s Democratic Party PDP or the newly formed All Progressive Congress APC. I could remember I was being convinced in one of these gatherings to see reasons to canvass and vote for the PDP’s program of “Continuity”. Then with a very grim but firm look I asked; continuity of what?

Of mindless lootings, unabated corruption, infrastructural deficits, neoliberal policies of privatization and commercialization of publicly owned resources, underfunding of education, total neglect and underfunding of the health sector, wave of fee hikes on our campuses, constant hike in pump price of oil leading to increased prices of goods and services with stagnated/underpaid/unpaid wages, increasing unemployment rate, rising insurgency and many more socio-economic hiccups which trailed the 16year misrule of the PDP. Despite the high hopes and mindboggling expectations the Nigerian people placed on the 2015 general elections which was greatly influenced by the emergence of a supposed new party which deceptively posed itself as an opposition, myself and a handful of others new better.

A few of us were convinced that the option of the PDP or the APC was as delicate as asking to choose who to govern the country between an armed robber and a fraudster. It was a dilemma of choosing the best way to die between murder and suicide. Perhaps that was what influenced my conviction to steer clear from the much touted voters card since the 2015 general election did not have as participant any individual or party contesting that election with outlined programs or political rhetoric fundamentally different from the rapacious PDP

As I noted to the proponents of APC’s Buharism, a vote for APC over the PDP was already a vote for “Continuity” since both are simply different feathers of the same bird. And the three year draconic misrule of the APC had not only validated my earlier assertions but has also made radical section of the disillusioned majority draw a progressive conclusion of the imperative to put a stop to this horrific trend of “Continuity”. The task to however discontinue this monstrous trend of “Continuity” has motivated different interpretations and highly conspicuous reactions to the 19years of ruling class dictatorship which was merely adorned in democratic toga.

The downtrodden section of the Igbo perceived a gross marginalization of its people and hence chose the option of secession under the umbrella of Biafra. Another disillusioned section saw the greedy, old and unenergetic guys as the nemesis of the country since they have refused to leave the stage for the “younger generation”. These proponents of “YouthoCracy” were fully persuaded that the only magical wand needed to rescue the country from the abyss of self destruction was the energy and adrenal drive of the youths. While this two theories partly agrees with the apt necessity to either challenge or overhaul the entire status quo, the advanced perspective are however defective in so many ways.

Should the basis of the Biafra agitation continues to bother on the question economic and political marginalization, then I think it is safe to assert that all poor people are victims of marginalization. Whether Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Ibibio, Efik, amongst other tribes, Muslims, Christians, traditionalists and atheists. And if anyone is still in the illusion that an Igbo Presidency would make any difference for the poor and expectant Igbo man, then you need to learn from the Hausa-Fulani domination of the Nigerian political space and yet Northern Nigeria is the most backward region in all socio-political and economic indices.

Take a swipe at Obasanjo’s 8year tenure which did more than making a mess of the lives of poor Nigerians but even his hometown was left in total fiasco. Why not also question Goodluck Jonathan whose 6year rule was not only a nightmare for the downtrodden Nigerians, but also for his kinsmen in Otueke. Or you may ask your Governors, State and National Law makers or should I saw Law breakers, who have greedily restructured Nigeria into their respective Bank Accounts.

Meanwhile, Youth Presidency does not necessarily translate to youth employment. Neither does it guarantee a Nigeria that is free of daunting socio-economic quagmire. The military example has shown us that the energy of the youths if not properly guided by correct ideological principle can drown us much faster into the ocean of abject misery. Youths and Students’ Activists like Yele Sowore spent their University days fighting the Youth dominated military dictatorship and uncouth penchant for bloodletting recklessness. Some of this “abominations” who killed and brutalized our comrades, incarcerated scores of them, expelled them from campus, butchered some and condemned numerous others to the wheel chair later came back as civilian administrators.

The likes of Buhari, Obasanjo and Babangida who ordinarily should be polishing their dirty feet behind bars for all the Economic and Political crimes committed against the Nigerian people as military dictators, have now become the same persons who some deluded Nigerians think we needed their experience on the question of governance. Was it not their “experience” that led us to this sardonic state in the first instance? One of the so called “Statesmen” in-fact went ahead to put together some sort of a “Third Farce” consciously misnamed “Third Force”. His “Coalition for Nigeria Movement” is at best the “Coalition for Nigerian Fraudsters”.

Isn’t it ironic that the same armed robber who robbed the Nigerian treasury, turned the country into a private money making enterprise, cowardly killed and incarcerated our comrades, both as a “youthful” military dictator and a civilian gangster, has once again shamelessly presented himself as some sort of a modern Jesus who intends to save our bleeding souls from the deathly dart of another politically demented fraudster who also as a brutal military dictator and now a civilian “Cow-mander” in chief of the cow forces, made a total mess of the economy of the downtrodden.

He alsoshowered the poor with the rains of chronic starvation, intensified ethno-religious strife amongst our people for personal gains, protected the profits of himself and the business moguls in the Cow trade at the expense of rising death toll in Benue, Taraba, Kaduna, Nassarawa and other parts of Nigeria that has been ravaged by the killer herdsmen, strengthened the business of terrorism through the continuous financial empowerment of the Bokoharam insurgents which has led to unabated abductions and protracted bombings of innocent Nigerians in Dapchi, Chibok, Mubi and other parts of Nigeria.

Government insensitivity has left at the mercy of the emboldened Bokoharam insurgents, flagrantly disregarded the rule of law through the continued incarceration of El Zarki Zarki and increment of electricity tariff despite subsisting court orders that says otherwise, consciously leaving our National treasury at the mercy of “cashivorous animals” like snakes and monkeys and structured our economy in such a way that mobilizes stupendous wealth for himself and cronies but concentrates unimaginable poverty for the “inconsequential” Nigerian populace.

This was why I was somewhat irritated but unperturbed that some #LazyNigerianYouth came on the free space in a failed attempt to ridicule an entire mass movement whose face is the legendary and highly courageous fighter; Omoyele Sowore. You may have observed that my entire elaborative epistle could not respond to his points since the author of the intellectually vacant article made no point in the first instance. His ranting can be compared to a very loud music but defective in lyrics.

Nevertheless, I must admit that A.S.M Jimoh; the author of the infamous article intends to create an impression. It is a wretched impression that attempts to ridicule 30years of activism, discredit activists as good administrators, fault the urgent need to build a mass based political opposition to the overbearing ruling class and deliberately subject us yet again to the ignoble option of the devil and the deep blue sea come 2019. He proceeded further to make a shameless mockery of the experiences garnered from leading a vibrant and virile Students’ Union.

He is obviously ignorant of the history of the likes of Fidel Castro whose only political resume was being a former Students’ Union leader at Havana University and a dauntless fighter despite being in the military. What about Nelson Mandela whose political experience was at best gained at the barricades and behind prison walls for 27years. This leaders including Thomas Sankara of Burkinafaso to mention but a few are not without ideological limitations. Yet they are not only a product of mass movement but one of the greatest leaders Africa and the World have produced so far.

Yele Sowore’s TakeItBack is not without flaws, but there is no denying that a mass movement such as that is what Nigeria needs now more than ever. A mass based political movement of vibrant and “inconsequential Nigerians with aggressive agenda of courageously challenging the anti-poor ruling class, disrupting the political space and finally wresting power from the overbearing thieving elites. As the saying goes, there may come a time when we are too weak to fight oppression; there must however not come a time when we fail to protest against it. We have spent the last 19years protesting our moribund democratic arrangement.

Now is the time to fight the arrogant oppressors out of power and to #TakeItBack. And this we will do by aligning ourselves with a mass based movement that is obviously posing a clear alternative to neoliberal method of governance.

Sanyaolu Juwon


http://saharareporters.com/2018/05/03/re-yele-sowore-latest-comedian-town-sanyaolu-juwon

Agriculture / Re: FG Launches Startup Nigeria To Promote Agribusiness by sowore2019: 10:54am On May 03, 2018
Scam, How did Youwin Connects 2017 end? Nigerian youths that apply spend time and their hard earned money to buy data in watching hours of training videos online and was told at the end that there is no fund to power their startup. What about BIG and YESP? Nothing

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Politics / Re: Obasanjo Farms Refutes Claims That They Are Government Funded by sowore2019: 9:06am On May 03, 2018
Drchristian:

Man, you ain't getting 10,000 votes in Nigeria cause you are not smart and matured like ur Atiku and Buhari. ur criticisms are very bad and unhealthy.

Save your money by not contesting.

Can you explain the positive impact of Atiku and Buhari maturity and smartness on Nigerians? How has it affects you?

Politics / Re: President To Launch Corruption Tribunal Soon by sowore2019: 8:16am On May 03, 2018
It won't change anything, is it not the same government that kept amending charges on a 3 years trial they initiated.

Politics / Re: Obasanjo Farms Refutes Claims That They Are Government Funded by sowore2019: 8:09am On May 03, 2018
Propaganda by APC, yet they want to gag others from expressing their views. Support Sowore2019

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Jobs/Vacancies / Re: Problems During Registration Of Nigeria Prison Service by sowore2019: 8:05am On May 03, 2018
That is what you get when you have people with analogue brain administering the country, The site is probably hosted on a shared server.

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Politics / Re: Sowore Speaks: My Connection With Tinubu And Jonathan, Why I Hate PDP (VIDEO) by sowore2019: 9:31pm On May 02, 2018
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Politics / Re: Trump Promise To Send U.S Farmers To Assist Nigerian Farmers. by sowore2019: 6:17pm On May 02, 2018
With GM seed? President Buhari is not serious about agriculture, it's just lip service. He want youths to farm withou incentives, where will they get money to buy seed, clear the farmland, weed when it is time or buy pesticides or herbicides or does he think all these are free? Even before harvesting, how will they sustain themselves.

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Politics / Re: Sowore’s Gofundme #takeitback Campaign Reaches $28,000 by sowore2019: 6:09pm On May 02, 2018
igbodefender:
Omoleye Sowore is brilliant. In other circumstances, we would be rooting for him. But because of Nigeria's present circumstances, it is Buhari 2019, Igbo Presidency 2023. Omoleye Sowore is very likely to come second in 2019!

The narration is changing? the fact is that we youth are underestimating our value in Nigeria, imagine the SDP, led by Chief Olu Falae and Jerry Gana (A serial AGIP) appointing IBB as there patron and some youths are hailing them.
Politics / Re: Sowore’s Gofundme #takeitback Campaign Reaches $28,000 by sowore2019: 6:03pm On May 02, 2018
Ratello:
I love Sowore's psychotic swags one thing is certain, Sowore will be relevant in Nigerian Politics by 2027.

We are not joking with 2019, We are Taking Nigeria Back from those that considered it as their Social Security.

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Politics / Re: Sowore’s Gofundme #takeitback Campaign Reaches $28,000 by sowore2019: 5:59pm On May 02, 2018
We are silently disrupting the political sphere! A lot of pessimist will be shocked in 2019

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