Human rights advocate and former African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has denounced calls for a new political coalition by former members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former cabinet members of former President Muhammadu Buhari, arguing that many of them ought to be prosecuted for their crimes rather than scheming for political gains.
Sowore was unreserved in his condemnation of the current administration in a recent interview that was broadcast on Symfoni. He claimed that President Bola Tinubu’s administration had come simply to finish the devastation of the nation, which he believed had started under the Buhari-led government.
After Buhari destroyed Nigeria, the Tinubu administration arrived to bury it. And people continue to comply with them. What is wrong with Nigerians is beyond me. We’re not having fun. We are not getting involved in all this nonsense about protests because of this. We are interested in a revolution when we and Nigerians are ready. We have been very clear about that. Because that’s what can halt this insanity in our body polity,” he said.
Sowore expressed profound mistrust towards opposition individuals rising from within the establishment, stating that they lack the moral and ideological legitimacy to make any meaningful change.
“Not the kind of opposition where people like El-Rufai. No, those ones are not opposition. Those ones are coalitions of hungry people. So, and when the time comes, the moment they are offered what they want, they will go back to where they came from,” he asserted.
He continued, “Yeah, so that’s why you don’t say, because the APC was a coalition. And that’s still where they put us. And the people who are asking to form another coalition are former APC members. In fact, most of them are Buhari cabinet members who are supposed to be in prison. They are forming coalitions instead of, they should be in prison forming a union of prisoners. So what do you expect from that?”
Turning his attention to security issues and the handling of separatist agitation in the South-East, Sowore also condemned the militarisation of the region and the continued detention of IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
“It is the Nigerian government that goes to the South-East to go and militarise it. It’s the Nigerian government that refused to release Nnamdi Kanu, something that would have solved a big problem. And then instead of releasing him, we’re going to put army in the east. Every kilometer in the east, there are army checkpoints. But after 100 kilometers in the north, you can’t find the army. There was a man in Kastina who said there are only five guns in the local government in Kastina State. So these things are deliberate. That’s what I’m telling you,” he stated.
Sowore maintained that the real transformation of Nigeria could only happen when genuine leaders, elected by the people and not elite consensus, take control of the nation’s affairs.
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