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Not just their leaders they themselves think they are holy and righteous, its a very hypocritical religion, travel to Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, you would be surprised how many white people live there, but these our Northern brothers don't want 'Western Education' yet in a very poor Nigeria, they are the poorest

SoNature:
It's official: people must die every week in northern Nigeria. Yet their leaders deceive themselves with 'the monolithic north.'

I like our south for one key reason: the tribes merely quarrel and settle later without ethnic cleansing. Eg, Igbo/Yoruba

You are 100% right, I think its because you can pull up resources easier these days with tech, we do have a lot to do!

Nowenuse:
Yeah, you are right with your points.
Thank God for people like you and I who still learn history on our own and would not accept everything fed to us from the western media hook, line and sinker.

The Nigerian society needs very heavy re-orientation, and I am happy that most of we the youths are realizing this. Realizing problems and mistakes is the first step to finding a solution. I don't know about other people, but for me, I sincerely hope to cause/mobilize a change in the nearest possible future.
I'm so disgusted with the lackadaisical, non-challance and visionless attitude of our fathers and their generation. Well, maybe because we are in a more developed age of enlightenment and technology which has given many of we the youths the platform to realize the mistakes of our fathers and do something about it.

Hahaha U mean the military that just got $1 billion? you are a joker,

deji17:
Part of the solution is that. One of the reason why the killings is going on is that our police and military are under staffed, funded and under equiped.
If you play your own part, things will run smoother. Every citizen has a part to play.

So if we all pay tax the killings would stop? Do I have to do 'something' before the killings stop?

deji17:
Easier to blab and try to bully people online by telling them to shut their face than actually doing something. You as an individual, what have you done for the country? Do you pay your tax?

Deji shut your face, this is 2018, the world is dealing with AI and Robotics, there is an estimate that Robot automation will take 800 million jobs by 2030, Nigeria's president can't deal with herdsmen and grazing? Even the hausa are starting to sense something is not right

deji17:
Ex looters coming together to dislodge Buhari.. Hahahahahaha . Una number no reach. You all have the masses to contend with.

Its pretty sad that some people are getting ready to vote in Buhari again, grandpa gotta go

You can't have sex in public in the western world bro, even they still have morals

kizias:
Africa is really dumb. Its happened in the Western world like normal. It was even in the night and can't be regarded as public nuisance

You got my vote bro,

Nehemiah459:
The Publisher of the popular news website, Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, has thrown his hat into Nigeria’s political ring. He is now gearing up to run in the country’s forthcoming presidential election in 2019.

In this interview with Editor-in-Chief Musikilu Mojeed, Mr. Sowore explains why he is joining politics, how he will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari, how he will run Nigeria if elected, and what he will do with Sahara Reporters once he becomes president.

PT: You have indicated you might run for president in the 2019 election. Why are you crossing into partisan politics?

SOWORE: I’ve always been in the forefront of the agitation and struggle to move Nigeria forward – first as a student and youth activist during military regimes. Since 1999, my focus has been on improving and sanitizing the democratic space. This is a natural progression of my commitment to moving Nigeria forward. This will not be politics as usual. I have always been a part of the movement to move Nigeria forward. I have always played a leading role in that movement.

This is a movement. It will be the largest mobilization of Nigeria’s ignored and dispossessed people. It will be the most direct engagement of a people in their own political future. I’ve always offered Nigerians a platform for amplifying their concerns and dreams for Nigeria. I am continuing that struggle. Yes – we will be part of a coalition of parties. These will all be progressive parties – committed to nothing other than the advancement of the Nigerian nation. It is Nigeria’s moment to see revolutionary politics in action!

PT: Are you not abandoning activism that way?

SOWORE: Activism is simply advancing a pro-people agenda. For too long we have focused on using borrowed voices in the political realm while we’ve focused on creating awareness. That has failed. Since 1999 – the progressive movement has been disappointed by the actions and inactions of those we have left to handle the affairs of Nigeria while we reduced ourselves to election monitors, NGO leaders, and street protesters.

In the course of doing these, we have inadvertently supported some of the cruelest and mediocre to occupy political power. Sometimes the most revolutionary thing to do is to get into the ring. Obama was an activist who became president. Mandela was an activist who became president. Everyone will agree that their principled commitment to struggle continued even when they were in office. So it is possible to stay committed to an activist agenda even when in office.

PT: Are you saying Buhari has failed and not worthy of being re-elected?

SOWORE: Just a little over a week ago – over 100 young girls were taken by Boko Haram in Dapchi. Buhari’s appeal was supposed to be a tough stance against corruption and an ability to address the security crises posed by Boko Haram. No single major victory has been notched in the anti-corruption fight. Boko Haram is still alive and kicking. And the president’s inaction and lack of leadership are causing the herdsmen-farmers conflicts to take on an even more dangerous dimension. The Nigerian state is in shambles.

PT: Election is less than a year away. Are you still holed up in your base in New York? When are you going to find a party and then mobilize support for your candidacy?

SOWORE: I think it is incontrovertible that in and out of Nigeria, I have been an effective contributor to the struggle for the advancement of good governance in Nigeria. The efforts to mobilize progressives and to form a coalition of progressive parties and organizations is underway. I am using my time in the U.S. to mobilize diaspora Nigerians. This weekend, for instance, I will be holding a town hall in Maryland with Nigerians. I am also spending a great deal of my time meeting with my strategy and policy teams – members of whom include some really accomplished Nigerians. Unknown to many I have been on the ground Nigeria in the last two months.The work goes on. I will certainly be spending more time on the ground in Nigeria.

PT: Prosecuting election in Nigeria is known to cost several billions of naira. Where will you find the resources for this project?

SOWORE: Elections are always expensive – that’s true. However what is also true is that monies spent in Nigerian politics are not mainly focused on political mobilization or electioneering campaigns and organization. As a political movement for true change, we will not be spending money on buying votes or distributing rice to the electorate. Our monetary needs will be greatly reduced. We will be sourcing funds directly from the Nigerian people. Nigerians have demonstrated a capacity to devote their resources to projects that they believe in. The recent team that represented Nigeria in bobsledding at the Winter Olympics raised almost $200,000 – a lot of it from Nigerians. We are already seeing and receiving commitments for support. Our approach will revolutionize the way politics is funded in Nigeria. There is also a lot of support that is coming in the form of goodwill donations. For instance – I’ll be in Maryland this weekend at a town hall. A group of concerned Nigerians are funding that event. We also have something that counts for a lot – an army of technology savvy supporters and media platforms that will amplify our voice to the Nigerian people.

Barack Obama raised millions of dollars from Nigerians in the US alone in 2008/2009 and subsequently after. 100,000 Nigerian contributing $200 per person can help fund a clean election devoid of dirty money. With that, we can win the presidency and bring them back a lot of change!

PT: You are from the south of Nigeria. There are those saying you should wait until 2023 when Buhari or any other northerner would have completed the North’s turn of leadership rotation? What do you say to that?

SOWORE: Where has our “Turn – by – Turn” politics gotten us? I’m a firm believer that when it comes to the life of a nation – all sentiments must be set aside and only the most capable hands should be employed to manage the affairs of Nigerians. If I believed in Buhari’s ability to lead NIGERIA, I would have supported him. When Jonathan – a Southerner like me was in office, I had a principled opposition to the way he was running Nigeria. It was Albert Einstein that said, “it is madness to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome.” Nigeria has a unique opportunity in 2019 to elevate competence over tribalism, elevate character over dishonesty, principle over indecisiveness. I’m sure when the dust clears there will be candidates from across Nigeria expressing an interest in the presidency. Let Nigerians decide who should lead them.

Our patriots from across Nigeria won’t bother about zoning when they realize the person running the country is completely detribalized and doesn’t treat anyone different because of their tribe, religion, creed, and class. We have had it all. Mediocrity hiding behind zoning and a wicked, selfish sense of entitlement. The only thing zoning does is empower political actors to enrich themselves and plug their friends and cronies in the position of authority to steal, kill and destroy. For the rest of us north or south, we are zoned to misery.

PT: Recently Garba Shehu, a spokesperson to the president, said Buhari’s followership in Kano and across Nigeria is so huge and phenomenal that it has to be studied by political scientists. How can you defeat such a man in 2019?

SOWORE: Buhari’s followership is large – but remember that it took four tries and an alliance with the South-West and with progressive democratic forces before he was able to become president. We are all witnesses to the unprecedented set of circumstances that saw an incumbent president defeated at the polls. If there is anything we have learned in the last few years, it is the fact that the Nigerian electorate has become impatient with purposeless leadership. My candidacy is generating significant interest across Nigeria, especially amongst the youth. The youth demographic is the largest single voting block. The coalition of progressives, youths and previously disenfranchised Nigerians that we are building will be a force to reckon with. I have been in the business of building movements since my time as a student activist in the late 80s and early 90s. I am confident that we will be able to build a broad coalition of Nigerians committed to taking their country back and setting it firmly on a path to prosperity and unprecedented progress.

PT: What will you do differently if elected president of Nigeria?

SOWORE: Nigeria struggles because past presidents have had three major issues. Firstly, there is an abject absence of a clear vision as to where the country should be headed. Where should Nigeria be in the next five, 10 or even 50 years? Where are the national plans that map out the country’s vision and the paths to their actualization aside from the propaganda we see on NTA? Today, we are impressed by China’s sustained growth, but since 1953 China has produced a series of 5-year plans that has guided their growth. Now they are on their 13th five-year plan (2016-2020). With that China became the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth using its populace as its best resource. China solved its housing crisis and even now boast of unoccupied apartments in “ghost cities” built in the last 10 years. China built one of the fastest rail services with an amount of money equivalent to the sums stolen during the oil imports scam. Same goes for the UAE. Dubai was built into the architectural marvel that is now a magnet to Nigeria’s thieving elites. I will be instituting a series of four-year plans to overlap with Nigeria’s political tenure system that will chart our path to growth and progress. Secondly, even where a clear vision might exist, nepotism, tribalism, and favoritism has robbed us of the service of our best people. I am a completely detribalized Nigerian. My antecedents are that of an activist that has worked to build alliances and networks across this nation over the last 30 years.

I understand first hand the value of having competent and capable people in the right positions. I’ve created a world-class media company in the last 12 years and taught in a private college for eight years helping to mold some of America’s greatest minds.

Thirdly, corruption has crippled us as a nation. Where past presidents have been slow in tackling this issue and sometimes even complicit through their actions or inactions in promoting corruption, I will be decisive in dealing with this cancer that has ravaged the Nigerian nation.

PT: You are a long-term activist and indeed a very popular figure across Nigeria. But Gani Fawehinmi was an activist who served Nigerians all his life. He made to be president in 2003 but the same people he served for almost his entire life abandoned him at the polls. Are you not worried you might get a similar treatment?

SOWORE: Gani was, as you said, a household name across Nigeria. The reality was that in 2003, there was still some hope and expectation by the Nigerian people that the status quo political system would be able to lead Niferia to progress and growth. It is now clear that those largely naive aspirations were ill-founded. After numerous failed governments, Nigerians have demonstrated that they are ready to try new concepts and ideas and to go beyond the status quo in seeking solutions. That led them to pick a south-south Ijaw man as president in 2011 and in electing an opposition candidate who had failed to win the presidency three times before, in 2015. Gani came before his time. Also, there are other factors now present in our current political reality. For example, the power of social media helping young people to engage and interact, the power of technology to help change election outcomes, an accuracy of results, real-time reporting and capture of results.

It is also important to state that elections in 2003 and beyond under Obasanjo and the Peoples Democratic Party were not worthy to be referred to as credible elections. For instance, just imagine if Nigerians seized the opportunity offered by Gani in 2003 and thus elected him over an Olusegun Obasanjo, just imagine where will be today. Imagine, an Obafemi Awolowo or Aminu Kano over a Shehu Shagari. There is an appetite by the Nigerian people for candidates with character, and a proven and demonstrable track record of being able to drive for real change. The APC has failed Nigerians in this area. The movement we are building will be offering revolutionary change.

PT: On the platform of which political party are you planning to run?

SOWORE: That is something we are working on. We are currently in discussions with progressive groups and parties, the goal is to have a broad coalition of progressive parties that could lend their structures and ideologies to defeat the old order. When the time is right we will be announcing what party platforms that will be utilized.

PT: You have spent over 12 years of your life building SaharaReporters into a formidable news and anti-corruption platform? What becomes of the website now that you are crossing into partisan politics?

SOWORE: Sahara Reporters will continue to speak truth to power. The platform is more than just Sowore. When I win the presidency, I will be turning over all of my assets to a blind trust that will run it. Sahara Reporters will continue to be run by independent-minded citizen activists. Even now, the website is managed by several others who have been groomed and schooled in the founding traditions of the website. That is what Sahara Reporters is and that is how it will remain. SaharaReporters is driven by its ever loyal readers and users!

PT: Thank you very much for speaking to us.

SOWORE: Thank you very much too for interviewing me.

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http://saharareporters.com/2018/03/09/how-i-will-defeat-buhari-2019-omoyele-sowore - LearnVercity

Nigeria sef dey form statistics, did they go to every morgue? 1 dead in Abia state in 10 weeks :ohehehe

https://www.abnews247.com/2018/01/breaking-dangote-cement-trailer-crushes-man-death-mission-hill-umuahia-graphic-photos/
https://effiezy.com/2018/03/01/cultist-butchered-death-rival-gang-members-abia-state-graphic-photo/
http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/1-dies-as-abia-governor-dissolves-board-of-ppidf-over-bloody-clash/
http://babatundeblog.com/2018/03/11/artiste-shot-dead-armed-robbers-storming-house-aba-graphic-photos/

I am sure even Igbo guys were surprised hehehe

Once again it boils down to an identity crisis, 99% of history books even in Africa starts with slavery, and hollywood keeps reinforcing that almost once or twice a year, EVERY YEAR, movies about Ancient Egypt are played by whites, that does a number on your psyche, who are we? what have we achieved? why are there pyramids in Enugu? Oba of Benin's Pyramid? the fortress at Ijebu, etc, we are missing in history or stored in British museums! They never make it to Hollywood movies, just Africans naked and being whipped, So subconsciously we have adopted the mentality of slaves, we are extremely poor in spirit, we have no heroes, a 60 years old man can't mention a hero, that gets even worse in the political arena, zero role model, it's so bad the meme I dropped was of a quote from Winston Churchill, no Nigerian politician is worth quoting.
Our identity crisis is so bad we cling to stupid meaningless titles like its a price, you hear an 'educated' man call him Chief Dr Evangelist Adeleye esq. or Chief Imam Alhaji Eng Lukman, we hold tight to tribes, clan, and religion, even though we understand none, because when a black man gets money/power, those are mostly the first things he despises. He wants to first move away from people that look like him, wants to dress diff, even change his colour if he could. African Americans are worst off, their history starts on the shores of Africa with chains and sad songs, their heroes are freedom fighters who were all killed. We subconsciously unknowingly think we are nothing so we desire the flashiest things, we hope that would somehow make us different from everybody else,
Lastly do you realize West Africa uses the British curriculum? So we can forget about having any pride in past history that doesn't show Lord Luggard and Flora Shaw as our heroes. And don't forget white Jesus and Arabic Muhammad.
That said, all Nigeria needs is just one governor that would open the youth's eyes to good sensible living, people would start to demand more. Are we going to get that? Highly doubt it, why? Our leaders are so poor in spirit they become freemasons, freemasonry creates an elite, elites look out for themselves.

John Kuffuor, president of Ghana, Jerry J. Rawlings, his predecessor, Omar Hadj Bongo, president of Gabon, and Paul Biya, president of Cameroon. Others are Blaise Campaore, president of Burkina Faso, Idris Deby, president of Chad, Mamadou Tanja, president of Niger, Denis Sassou Nguesso, president of Congo Brazaville, his predecessor, Pascal Lissouba and Robert Guei, a general and late head of state of Ivory Coast, South African parliament is built on Masonic lodge, so no need to ask if Mandela was a mason, Koffi Annan, and tons of Nigerians, the same people that enslaved us, our so called leaders are bowing down for them in secret meetings and selling us out.

Nowenuse:
I think you are misjudging me. Who told you that I do not acknowledge the great history and achievements of Black African empires and kingdoms of the past?
I very much do bro and I know a whole lot about them and take pride in then more than you think I do.

However, as much as I acknowledge the positive side of our history, you do not expect me to completely ignore the negative parts do you? Some of these negative parts are still working against us till date.
Europeans, Asians and everyone else had negative parts of their histories and I don't think they deny it do they? I am speaking with my fellow black people and that is why I can freely open up on the negatives of our history. If I was speaking with an Asian or White, you don't expect me to talk like this, do you? I would definitely defend my people.

Asians did not sell themselves as slaves, but Africans did, and beside I see no reason how this affects our present day progress.
Most Asians already had a great sense of nationhood and homogenous states before Europeans colonized them, this is why they largely retained their languages after colonialism. Asians to a large extent already had homogenous religions too, which defined them.
No region of Africa had a homogenous native religion with widespread adherence, whereas the Arabs and much of the middle east had Islam as an identity and a somewhat unifying tool, South Asia had hinduism while East and South-East Asia had Buddhism.

Besides, It is only in most parts of West Africa that our indigenous languages are not officialized and promoted. This I think is largely due to heavy plurality of ethnicity.
However in most Southern & East African countries, their native languages share equal official and literacy status with English.

You must hate google translate! You are very small minded

degamemaster:
Nwokem kedu onye siri gi kowaa? This is you guys go about disgracing the Igbo nation/language. How many times have you seen a yoruba or hausa or fulani or any other tribe go into deep explanation that's uncalled for? Other people will hold their languages and cultures at a very high esteem and the deep secret things othersl respects and fears but my fellow Igbos will come and spill it open and mesmerise the whole thing.
Think twice and don't quote me.

Doesn't that scare you? with out vast population we have no opposition to an old man, the future of the youth feels uncertain,

burakado17:
The truth my brother. Nobody can match him. Buhari has no rival.

Why do black people still believe this nonsense? Please don't raise your kids on crap
https://classroom.synonym.com/1600s-were-portuguese-trading-14076.html
''.....Portuguese exploration along the West African coast began in the 15th century in the course of Portugal's search for a shorter route to Asia. Although trade with the Africans had not been the goal of their voyage, the Portuguese found that Africa had much to offer. African cities rivaled those of Europe in organization, and African agricultural systems were significantly advanced. The Africans had desirable goods to trade including ivory, gold and pepper. By the 1600s, however, the kingdoms of Africa had established trade with the Portuguese in a far more lucrative export: African slaves.''

I think black people in general are suffering from identity crisis,we don't know who we are and we have no real heroes, even in our afterlife we are still hoping a foreign messiah would save us, that's why a totally fictional movie like Black Panther gave blacks worldwide joy. Now in the bid for identity, a lot of Nigerians have rallied behind the Nigerian flag, and the nation itself, that would be hard to shake off. We have no history besides some migration tidbits, our history books start from 1960! Imagine you educating your kids on his forefathers, you would describe them as cannibals and mass murderers, but if a white/arab or Asian describes his ancestors, it would be full of glowing admiration.

Asia was colonized but the young men and leaders weren't carted off in their millions to slave away. Besides most Asian countries don't have democracies or they recently switched to democracy, and their history goes back 1000's of years that they teach in their schools, they speak their own language with pride, but Africans have been made to believe we had no influence on history even though Egyptians/Hebrews were black, NEVER heard that in school, I had to do my own research to find out.

Still, we can do better as a people.

Nowenuse:
I disagree with you.

Before Europeans came to Africa, were Africans not conquering, massacring, enslaving, cannibalizing, human sacrificing (which we do till date) and looting each other?

Are we Black people sub-humans? If the Europeans lumped us together, what stops us from sitting down as humans to renegotiate our existence as nations?

Africa was not the only colonized area. Asia was heavily colonized too by the same Europeans. How come many of them are making tremendous progress today compared to Africa?

How can a youth quote these kind of numbers as achievements?

sarrki:
So far, under President Buhari, 455,857 poor and vulnerable households have been uploaded onto the National Social Register, from which 297,973 households have been mined and are being paid stipends in 20 States

Oh please government this government that, the OP bypassed all the locally made rice and paid for Thailand rice, if you don't support our local farmers who would? if the demand for Thailand rice goes down, importers would be buying from farmers, but as long as people want Thai rice, infact people DEMAND for it, and once there is demand there would be supply. I remember when rich Nigerian's ate only Uncle Ben's rice abi wetin be that yankee rice we too like foreign

slimthugchimee2:
I am not a stench buhari supporter, but seriously this is embarrassing, for a Nigeria to rather buy foreign made rice and be happy about it when there are a lot of local rice waiting to be bought......just because he hates buhari.....ohhh, you guys should sometimes try not to see the world through political and tribal means

Quite sad, these days we pay money for electronics and clothes destined for the incinerators of Europe, America and Asia, we have been thoroughly destroyed so much that our politicians can't wait to go stash money in Europe!

These are the states that have implemented Sharia:
Zamfara State
Kano State
Sokoto State
Katsina State
Bauchi State
Borno State
Jigawa State
Kebbi State
Yobe State
the following 3 states have also instituted sharia in some parts with large Muslim populations
Kaduna State
Niger State
Gombe State

These are the poorest states in Nigeria:
Sokoto State
Katsina State
Adammawa State
Kebbi State
Gombe State
Jigawa State
Plateau State
EbonyiState
Bauchi State
Zamfara State

Do some Arabic calculations maybe you can figure out what is wrong here

amnesty7:
Yes I love it! I am proud to be literate in Arabic just like in English!
كيف الحال؟
And neither has denied me anything of my native language.

In every government project pictures, there is always a white face in the background no matter how small,

It seems funny right now because you are too dumb to see whats going on in Sudan, your father and his forefathers culture is being obliterated and replaced with Arabic and it's amusing to you. Its sad sensible Nigerians are stuck between two crazy religions

amnesty7:
You rage and annoyance has made my day! May you live long.

So surgery is easier than registering in a gym?

EweduAfonja:
Some ladies shaaa...

why not do Liposuction... instead of Implant ..


me na Liposuction i go do after child birth.. make my tins gallant like under 16 for my husband

To be frank, Europeans deserve no peace for raping our continent, making our kings figureheads, lumping tribes together and giving us democracy, perhaps the most corrupt form of government in the world, US with it's phony wars keeps pushing these terrorists to West Africa, that said Africa needs to do better, Iwobi should know, something chased him out of Nigeria!

So you gather another $2000 or more to travel to Libya and claim you are suffering, slavery is no more a deterrent to these people

Writing about it doesn't bring them back from the dead dummy, if that is the case you should call Amnesty Int

Skepticus:
It's now a competition for who kills most, psychopath?

Those numbers you mentioned are humans for Fv.ck sake!

You and Femi Adesina should be rounded up and summarily shot for objectifying murder over human sanctity.

GTFOH

Hope she ate before coming

Skepticus:
Africans and everything barbaric!

Why did God create the black man sef?

The perverted slowpoke above me, though

Hey slower poke, quick to call your father barbaric?
Amnesty International (AI) has revealed that no fewer than 375 civilians have been killed between January and November 2017 in various attacks carried out by members of the Boko Haram sect
Excluding most suicides, at least 15,549 people were killed by guns in the United States in 2017, according to data collected by Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a nonprofit organization that tracks media and law enforcement reports of shootings.

That a state governor can buy this piece of sh*t in 2018 is one thing, to be patted on the back by citizens is another.

Star of David .....make una continue

When you are preaching the truth, don't expect to get a burial like this, the world hates the truth, if your 'pastor' is a darling with politicians and the upper echelon, he is a phony, shouldn't be hard to figure out. ''Big money got no soul''

All those white men on the wall geeez, what is wrong with Black people? We are just too ignorant, yet there are Jews living among us and we still somehow believe Jesus is a white man? If you want to keep a secret from a black man, put it in a book. I just hate stupid people!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Nigeria

Glad to see someone is awake to this fuckery, a lot of celebrities would still comment, it has to be in the news for a couple of days

yorubablood:
The goat symbolises Baphomet the God of Illuminati. Whizzy just flaunting what he is into. End time artist.

He is passing a spiritual message with this picture, people don't get it