When an individual is motivated by ideology, he or she will invariably differ from others, and maintaining consistency will not pose an issue. Trust will not be a concern. This is the reason why I intend to vote for @sowore
In 2018, I toured the world as a presidential aspirant and later as a presidential candidate, meeting Nigerians across the diaspora and assuring them of a home they could proudly return to, a Nigeria that could once again become a beacon of hope for Black people everywhere.
In South Africa, I spoke candidly about the hostility some Black South Africans displayed toward Nigerians and other African nationals who were being unfairly treated. My stance led a South African television host to abruptly cut short my interview, and subsequent media appearances were put on hold.
Today, that warning has become a raging prophecy.
However, no matter how strongly we feel about the xenophobia of ordinary South Africans and their leaders toward fellow Africans, we must never forget that our own rulers have been far worse. They have subjected Nigerians to poverty, repression, insecurity, and forced migration, making millions vulnerable both at home and abroad.
Until we confront the failures of governance in Nigeria, our people will continue to pay the price wherever they go!
#RevolutionNow #SoworeForPresident #Sowore2027 #TinubuMustGo
This is 100% correct.
If you hear some of the reasons people hate @sowore. You see how educated-illiterate they are. Cause majority of them are actually educated. They want change, but they are not willing to change or be part of the change they are clamouring for.
In a yet-to-be-published interview on the manifesto, hosted by Bukola Adebayo and recorded before my detention in Kuje prison, I was asked who my biggest opponent was. My answer was simple: ignorance!
#SoworeForPresident#Sowore2027#RevolutionNow
Students of the University of Lagos who were on campus between 1993 and 1994 can bear witness to this.
One of the earliest lessons I learned in life is that the struggle for justice and the defense of the oppressed are often thankless. That is the burden of leadership.
In 1993, when cult violence had placed the University of Lagos under siege, cult groups had effectively taken over the campus. The university authorities were complicit, and many of the attacks were coordinated with the active involvement of the university administration and the then Commissioner of Police, James Danbaba.
A few student leaders and I made a decision that we would confront cultism head-on, regardless of the personal cost.
For that decision, I was brutally beaten, injected with unknown substances, humiliated, and left at the brink of death. But the deepest wound was never the physical abuse. It was the ingratitude and disappointment from the very students whose lives we were risking everything to protect.
At one point, I wrestled a live grenade from a student who intended to detonate it on campus. While many stood frozen in fear, I was prepared to lose my own life if that was what it took to save thousands of other students.
I do not recount these experiences to seek sympathy or applause. I say them because they define what leadership truly means. Leadership is sacrifice. Leadership is standing for what is right when it is dangerous, unpopular, or unappreciated. Leadership is remaining committed to justice even when those you fight for do not understand the price you are paying.
My fight to liberate Nigeria did not begin today. It is a commitment I made decades ago, and one I have never and will never abandoned!
#RevolutionNow #Sowore2027 #SoworeForPresident
These newly surfaced clips of my interactions with Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola are yet another reminder that my commitment to the struggle for justice, democracy, and the liberation of Nigeria did not begin today. Long before many of those now occupying positions of power found their voices, I was already on the frontlines of the June 12 struggle, standing with Nigerians against military dictatorship and demanding that the people’s mandate be respected.
The irony is striking: many of the opportunists, enablers, and pretenders who either opposed, ignored, or later hijacked that democratic struggle are now in positions of authority and seek to suppress those who remained faithful to its ideals. They may wield state power today, but history has shown repeatedly that repression cannot extinguish a just cause.
These clips are not merely historical artifacts; they are evidence of consistency. They show a young activist standing with the democratic movement when it was dangerous to do so, and they connect directly to the same principles that continue to guide the struggle today.
Those who now deploy the machinery of the state against dissent should remember that every generation produces its oppressors and its resisters. The oppressors enjoy temporary power; the resisters ultimately inherit history.
They will be defeated. The cause of justice endures. The struggle continues. #TakeItBack #Sowore2027 #SoworeForPresident
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
NIGERIA: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
Nigeria: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
Nigeria: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
Nigeria: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
Nigeria: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
Nigeria: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
Nigeria: Free Sowore, Drop Charges.
In his final year at the University of Lagos, while Sowore was in the examination hall taking an exam, security operatives were waiting for him outside the classroom.
From 1998 to date:
Security agencies in Nigeria have arrested activist Omoyele Sowore 548 times.
He has been remanded in detention facilities 46 times.
He has faced trial in court 98 times.
Sowore has taken governors, senators, lawmakers, security agencies, and even the President of Nigeria to court. This is a man who has spent much of his life fighting legal and political battles.
BREAKING: We've urged the government of President @officialABAT to immediately and unconditionally release journalist @sowore and drop all charges of criminal defamation and cybercrimes against him, as he is detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his human rights.
According to reports, a federal high court in Abuja today ordered the remand of Sowore at the Kuje Correctional Centre pending the hearing of his application challenging the revocation of his bail. The court made the order after dismissing an application by Sowore seeking the judge’s recusal from the case on grounds of alleged bias.
We are concerned about the escalating crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association and media freedom and the flagrant disregard for the rule of law by Nigerian authorities.
Nigerian authorities should safeguard, not stifle, human rights and the rule of law in the country.
Nigerian authorities must immediately release Sowore and drop all the bogus charges against him. Authorities must stop weaponizing criminal defamation and cybercrime laws to target and attack journalists, bloggers, human rights defenders and activists and stop detaining and imprisoning them solely for doing their jobs.
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Justice Mohammed Umar refused to recuse himself from presiding over my case and then ruled that I be remanded in custody, I addressed our Comrades on the solid need to remain resolute in pursuit of justice. There is no going back #RevolutionNow#Sowore2027
I sympathise with those supporting this. Soon enough, everyone will know we are at war. Terrorists are everywhere in the country, walking freely. But what we don't understand is that the government is the Terrorist—Revolution now, not later. Let's take our country back.
“Look at what they’re doing to Sowore inside the court room, look at what DSS is doing to him, look at what they’re doing in the court room, do you want to shuut us ? Do you want to kp@! Us ? Shameless people”💔💔
Sowore supporters shouts at the security officials r0ugh handl!ng Sowore as they take him out of the court room this afternoon