Buhari’s Plan to Kill Sowore, Social Media Bill, and Aisha Buhari’s Hypocrisy

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Farooq A. Kperogi

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Buhari’s Plan to Kill Sowore, Social Media Bill, and Aisha Buhari’s Hypocrisy

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D.
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Minutes before I started writing this column, I watched disturbing videos showing officers of Nigeria’s anarchic DSS physically assaulting Omoyele Sowore in the process of illegally re-arresting him after a judge had ordered, for the umpteenth time, that he and Olawale Bakare be released from detention. The brave judge was also scared away by gunshots.

The videos emblematize Nigeria’s descent into the very nadir of fascistic absolutism. Buhari’s monocratic excesses are turning out to be more toxic than I had feared.

Before he was violently rearrested, Sowore said on camera that operatives of the DSS had told him he would never leave their gulag alive if he didn’t compromise. They want to murder him for demanding that the systemic dysfunction in Nigeria that holds vast swathes of people down be radically overhauled so that the country can work for everyone, not just a criminally and undeservedly favored minority.

Will Nigerians and the world watch idly while Buhari’s agents murder a man who committed no crime? Why is there no groundswell of national rage toward the unjustified criminalization of Sowore by a government that mollycoddles murderous Boko Haram terrorists, that “de-radicalizes” and “integrates” captured terrorists into the military who then cause the mass slaughters of our military men?

I know why. It’s because Sowore is an equal-opportunity tormentor of oppressors. Goodluck Jonathan sympathizers are as angry with him as Muhammadu Buhari supporters are. And since there are numerically insignificant people in the middle, that is, who are neither Jonathanians nor Buharists, he is left in the lurch.

Jonathan partisans on social media try to exploit the amnesia of Nigerians to claim that Sowore is only the victim of karmic retribution for opposing Jonathan’s administration, which putatively granted Nigerians unfettered freedom of speech. Well, several people, including Sowore, are being tried now using a repressive law that was signed by Goodluck Jonathan.

The Cybercrime Act, which Jonathan signed into law in 2015, prescribes a three-year jail term or a fine of 7 million naira or both for anyone convicted of “causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to another.”

One of Sowore’s offenses, according to the charge sheet from the government’s prosecutors, is “That you Omoyele Stephen Sowore… did commit an offence to wit: you knowingly sent messages by means of press interview granted on ‘Arise Television’ network which you knew to be false for the purpose of causing insult, enmity, hatred and ill-will on the person of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

As you can see, the charge against Sowore was taken straight from Jonathan’s Cybercrime Act. And this leads me to the fascistic social media strangulation bill being sponsored by Senator Mohammed Sani Musa of Niger State. The bill, like the ignorant “hate speech” bill being sponsored by another Niger State senator by the name of Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, duplicates Jonathan’s ridiculously suppressive Cybercrime Act, which already criminalizes “causing annoyance… insult… enmity, hatred, ill will or needless anxiety to another.” What more do these dolts want?

Last week, Senator Musa said on national TV that the principal inspiration behind his sponsorship of the bill was to punish people behind the previously wildly trending social media rumor that Muhammadu Buhari was going to get married to Ms. Sadiya Umar Farouq, who masquerades as “minister” of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development even though the real minister is Fatima Mamman Daura, Mamman Daura's favorite daughter, who works as a director there.

Well, Aisha Buhari herself confirmed the wedding rumor during her interview with BBC Hausa on October 13, 2019. “Wacce aka ace Buhari zai aura ba ta yi zaton ba za a yi auren ba,” she told BBC Hausa. Rough idiomatic translation in English: "The very woman Buhari was supposed to marry didn't expect that the wedding would not happen."

 In other words, according to Aisha, the wedding rumor had basis in truth and Sadiya, in fact, was prepared for the wedding until it was called off because of the unexpectedly unusual social media attention it generated.

People close to Aisha told me it was actually Aisha and her social media handlers who instigated the social media hype over the wedding in order to embarrass Mamman Daura and ultimately thwart the wedding. And they succeeded.

Nonetheless, the same Aisha Buhari who confirmed that there was indeed a plan for Buhari to get married to his former mistress, Sadiya Farouq, reportedly told TVC’s “Journalists Hangout” that the rumor was fake. “I didn’t take it seriously because even my husband didn’t know what was happening,” she said. “Both of us didn’t know what was happening; they just decided to bombard social media with it. They are now taking to social media to bring down the government itself.”

She was clearly told to say that to manage the damage that my revealing her BBC Hausa media interview to the nation caused. Note that Aisha is barely literate. Her “degree” from the Kaduna satellite campus of Ambrose Alli University was fraudulent. It was acquired after the NUC had banned satellite campuses of universities, which were basically diploma mills, from issuing degrees. She used the illegally acquired satellite campus degree to get admission into NDA to study for a “master’s degree.”

Apart from being illiterate, she’s also a dissembler who exploited her opportunistic fight with the Aso Rock cabal to buy herself undeserved national sympathy. But she’s unraveling now after settling with the cabal. Nigerians should ask her to reconcile what she told BBC Hausa on October 13 and what she told TVC on December 5—if she’s intelligent enough to understand the question, that is.

By the way, Senator Musa, the sponsor of the social media bill, is the same APC party man whose company INEC contracts to produce card readers and PVCs for elections since 2015. That is ethically questionable. Of course, such a morally stained wheeler dealer would want to shut down social media under false pretenses to conceal his shenanigans.

Musa’s shamelessly plagiarized social media bill targets Nigerians not only at home but also abroad. The bad luck for him is that even if he succeeds in passing it into law, it won’t affect Nigerians who live in the US. In 2008, the state of New York enacted what is called  the Libel Tourism Protection Act, which “prevents litigants from enforcing foreign libel judgments in the state unless a New York court finds that the jurisdiction issuing the judgment provides the same free speech protections guaranteed under the U.S. and New York state constitutions.”

A federal version of this law was passed as “Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act” in 2010. Since Nigeria does not have the same free speech protections as America, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that the social media bill will have any effect on those of us who live in America.

That was why I was shocked when Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi reported a US Embassy Political Officer by the name of Jerry Howard to have said that the hateful, ignorant, needlessly duplicative “hate speech” bill he is sponsoring in the Senate is “impressive.”

I doubt that Mr. Howard actually said that. But if he did, he would be guilty of what former President George W Bush once called “the soft bigotry of low expectations”: a form of benign prejudice that sets a low bar for people thought to be inferior.

America has no hate speech laws. The US Supreme Court has consistently ruled that hate speech laws are unconstitutional. The cure for hate speech in America is more free speech or, as Justice Louis Brandeis put it, "more speech, not enforced silence." Why should what is bad for America be “impressive” for Nigeria?

In any case, the bill Senator Abdullahi is sponsoring isn’t even hate speech in the proper sense of the term, as I showed last week; it’s a mix of defamation (which is already covered in Nigeria’s extant laws) and a sly protection of corrupt government officials from critical citizen commentary.
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Very good.

But the reason why the Sowore horror has not gathered outrage as it should are more complex.

Sowore belongs in the ranks of Wole Soyinka, Obasanjo, and among politicians, Tinubu, Lai Muhammed and other Southern Nigerian influencers who enabled Buhari's victory by selling him in the South.

Obasanjo has made a very open about face by his high decibel critiques of Buhari and his much publicized reconciliation visit to GEJ at Otueke, effectively counterbalancing the dramatics he orchestrated in the struggle to remove GEJ, including OBJ publicly tearing up his PDP party membership card at a critical stage in the run up to the 2015 vote.

Soyinka has been recorded as claiming in an interview to the effect that he effectively rescinded his 'The Trouble with Buhari' the most powerful anti-Buhari document pre-2015 bcs other people assured him that Buhari was now reformed.

Those who watched his running battle with GEJ's wife, and the claim, which I expect is true, of his   calling her a sheppotamous,  his romance with Amaechi, involving the expensive birthday party thrown for him at Rivers states expense, an expense he claims no knowledge about, and his ridiculing of GEJ after the then President granted him audience in the dying days of his govt, and seeing Soyinka's blissful pics with Buhari in Aso Rock, are not likely to be deeply impressed by his critiques of Buhari's govt, pointed as they are, bcs at the time of decision, he was one of those who were informed enough to know better but nudged the nation to make a deadly choice through the influence they wielded and for reasons opaque till today.

Soyinka is a great writer and an at times inspiring social activist but an unreliable political actor. He is too comfortable with recognition and integration by politicians, from IBB to Amaechi to Buhari.

Tinubu and Lai Muhammed are career politicians in the Nigerian context, so their whitewashing as an anti-corruption crusader  a man whom they castigated in 2008 for claiming Abacha did not steal even as Abacha's loot was being returned to the country, is not beyond what is expected of them.

As for Sowore, he lionized military rule in an interview, declaring GEJ worse than Abacha, the ultimate kleptomaniac and political murderer in Nigerian history whose sudden and mysterious death saved Nigerians from his practically inevitable self succession at a fear soaked period in Nigeria's history.

Sowore's  SR may also be seen as very keen to highlight the govt's problems in the GEJ era.

So, we are all now stewing in the Buhari mess.

Secondly, Sowore eventually ran for the Presidency and lost.

So, the convergence of media businessman, social activism, partisanship and political ambition in his career in the last ten years is proving troubling for many.

I expect that he will get the identification he needs, from the South, I dont expect it from the Muslim North on account of religio-ethnic solidarity with the President, but it might take some time.

I admire him deeply and see him as a thoroughbred politician, a man who can successfully be President of Nigeria.

He represents a new generation of politicians, away from the mutual replications of the military clique and the monolithism of the PDP and the fellow soldiers of fortune of the APC.

I see Nnamdi Kanu, first and Sowore, second, as the most significant  Nigerian political actors in what might be the changing landscape of Nigerian politics, people who identify unequivocally with particular values ultimately uplifting to Nigerians generally and put their well being and lives at risk in pursuit of those values, in the face a govt that has massacred Shiites and IPOB members and is an enabler of Fulani herdsmen terrorism claiming lives of untold nos of Nigerians.

I pray Sowore survives this dangerous adventure and remains part of the political struggles.

Some of the most powerful Nigerian politicians, such as Tinubu, Buhari, OBJ, gathered or increased their momentum by keeping themselves relevant through very visible activity decade after decade.

Sowore, and perhaps Ezekwesili, as far as I can see,  are the only two of the new generation of politicians seeking the Presidency, such as Moghalu, (technocrat politicians coming from outside politics and with a successful background in professional life),   who understand the value of continuous visibility in the search for political power in the Nigerian context.


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Timely response,thoughtfully shared -Gbemi Tijani MST
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If Sowore identifies unequivocally with particular values ultimately uplifting to Nigerians, why did Nigerians on account of these values not vote him in as their President earlier this year?  Or are we  speaking of different Nigerians?  He did not even come close to a distant second!

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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Olayinka,

'If Sowore identifies unequivocally with particular values ultimately uplifting to Nigerians, why did Nigerians on account of these values not vote him in as their President earlier this year?  Or are we  speaking of different Nigerians?  He did not even come close to a distant second!

OAA'

You are asking a qs to which you and I know the answer but you are asking it anyway as a Buharist, a political conservative who prefers accommodation of the system and refining it from within to the radical overhaul which Sowore presents himself as working towards.

A recognized style of political thought with its own value.

Buhai, whom you support has become President at last only after various efforts over a decade or more.

What changed?

What did Nigerians see in him that was not there before or which they did not see before?

He kept trying until various factors at last converged in his favour.

Sowore is just building his own visibility and Buhari is doing him a great service by persecuting him.

Sowore is forever made, with Buhari's help, from the distant US based publisher of SR, known only to a few, from the lackluster Presidential  candidate who got negligible votes to a man risking his life for a better country, a man who embodies the drive and technocratic acumen of the heroes of Nigerian activism, from Gani Fawehimi to the Ransome Kutis to Soyinka and Aminu Kanu, gathering high visibility for a generation  of youth to whom those names might not resonate, being figures whose activity, except for Soyinka to a degree, culminated in the 1990s.

As it is, he has moved far ahead of the Moghalus and eve the previously more visible Ezekwesili, whose self risk is limited to her uncomfortable experience of her  dramatic  march on Aso Rock, but without the incendiary force of Sowore's Revolution Now.

The longer Buhari keeps him, and the man is able to remain unbroken, realizing that this is the most critical point of his pubic life so far, a natural progression from his days in student union politics, a point that will prove pivotal in  his future as a public figure depending on how he manages it, the more lustre  Buhari gives him.

Buhari is fighting a losing war in the court of public opinion and historical legacy. But that might not be his focus, being perhaps more interested in power and its uses. The best thing to have done was to let Sowore be, thereby demonstrating your democratic credentials and the integrity of the govt   and struggle to convince the nation that you are sensitive to the issues Sowore is raising and scramble to show you are acting accordingly.

The IBB integration technique could also have been an option, integrating to his govt such drivers of public credibility as Soyinka and Tai Solarin, as the Buhari govt  is described as doing with the founder of the budget analysis team Budgit, presenting yourself as willing to work with willing hands to improve the system.

Even if we want a revolution, valid in itself, must it be sudden? Cant it be incremental so we dont enter into chaos, you could argue.

But our people brought in the security agencies to fight the protesters and arrested the leader and are playing various self discrediting games to keep him incarcerated.

It worked in China with the govt's response to the Tianammen Square protests. It had varied repercussions in the Arab world from the Arab Spring to the present.

I expect it to work partially in Nigeria, bcs the people may be seen as both cautious  and yet restive.

thanks

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Now at last!  We are on the same side.  Sowore should keep trying as many times as possible at the ballot box  like Buhari rather than the inconvenience of indefinitely being under arrest on the simplistic trail of facilitating a revolution.

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Olayinka,

'If Sowore identifies unequivocally with particular values ultimately uplifting to Nigerians, why did Nigerians on account of these values not vote him in as their President earlier this year?  Or are we  speaking of different Nigerians?  He did not even come close to a distant second!

OAA'

You are asking a qs to which you and I know the answer but you are asking it anyway as a Buharist, a political conservative who prefers accommodation of the system and refining it from within to the radical overhaul which Sowore presents himself as working towards.

A recognized style of political thought with its own value.

Buhai, whom you support has become President at last only after various efforts over a decade or more.

What changed?

What did Nigerians see in him that was not there before or which they did not see before?

He kept trying until various factors at last converged in his favour.

Sowore is just building his own visibility and Buhari is doing him a great service by persecuting him.

Sowore is forever made, with Buhari's help, from the distant US based publisher of SR, known only to a few, from the lackluster Presidential  candidate who got negligible votes to a man risking his life for a better country, a man who embodies the drive and technocratic acumen of the heroes of Nigerian activism, from Gani Fawehimi to the Ransome Kutis to Soyinka and Aminu Kanu, gathering high visibility for a generation  of youth to whom those names might not resonate, being figures whose activity, except for Soyinka to a degree, culminated in the 1990s.

As it is, he has moved far ahead of the Moghalus and eve the previously more visible Ezekwesili, whose self risk is limited to her uncomfortable experience of her  dramatic  march on Aso Rock, but without the incendiary force of Sowore's Revolution Now.

The longer Buhari keeps him, and the man is able to remain unbroken, realizing that this is the most critical point of his pubic life so far, a natural progression from his days in student union politics, a point that will prove pivotal in  his future as a public figure depending on how he manages it, the more lustre  Buhari gives him.

Buhari is fighting a losing war in the court of public opinion and historical legacy. But that might not be his focus, being perhaps more interested in power and its uses. The best thing to have done was to let Sowore be, thereby demonstrating your democratic credentials and the integrity of the govt   and struggle to convince the nation that you are sensitive to the issues Sowore is raising and scramble to show you are acting accordingly.

The IBB integration technique could also have been an option, integrating to his govt such drivers of public credibility as Soyinka and Tai Solarin, as the Buhari govt  is described as doing with the founder of the budget analysis team Budgit, presenting yourself as willing to work with willing hands to improve the system.

Even if we want a revolution, valid in itself, must it be sudden? Cant it be incremental so we dont enter into chaos, you could argue.

But our people brought in the security agencies to fight the protesters and arrested the leader and are playing various self discrediting games to keep him incarcerated.

It worked in China with the govt's response to the Tianammen Square protests. It had varied repercussions in the Arab world from the Arab Spring to the present.

I expect it to work partially in Nigeria, bcs the people may be seen as both cautious  and yet restive.

thanks

toyin


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we are not on the same page.

we need a revolution.

the current system is not working

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It has never worked; will never work. 

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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Well I did not see you at the barricades with Sowore offering yourself for arrest neither were you at the court premises.  Yours is just armchair criticism.

I prefer people to put their money where their mouth is.

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we are not on the same page.

we need a revolution.

the current system is not working

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Neither do i see you on the streets campaigning in support of Buhari's govt.

yours is just armchair criticism.

toyin

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OLAYINKA AGBETUYI

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And how might revolution work if I might ask?

I have also posed the same question to Toyin Adepoju directly.


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How can support be criticism?  Are we getting into an oxy- moronic twist?

If you say we need a revolution, what are you doing physically to assist those who already started actions to bring it about except mislead them to sacrifice their comfort to help bring about your desired goal and comfort while you would not even lift a finger except to compose hate messages?

If Toyin Adepoju were a millionaire would he call for a revolution to cart away his millions?

Why should the rich be made to suffer just because Toyin Adepoju was not born with a silver spoon?

Are all rich people guilty of ill gotten wealth?  If you got rich by honest hard work and revolutionaries STOLE that wealth by revolutionary brigandage, would you be singing hallelujah?

By what organizing wand does your amorphous catch all revolution achieve equity? (.e. after Sowore has helped Toyin Adepoju  bundle Buhari out of Aso Rock and stayed there in his stead.)

Break it down!

Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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Buhari is described as twice calling for a revolution before he came to power.

Perhaps he could help answer the qs of what he was thinking then of how a revolution could work.

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As your link shows Buhari's call for a revolution was euphemistic and was supposed to happen THROUGH THE BALLOT BOX.

An election has just been concluded so what need is there for you and Sowore to call for a revolution and the language here is of violence ' bundling Buhari out of Aso Rock' and neutralizing ( by what means? )the DSS.

How does this measure up against your own ( and Sowore's)revolution which has nothing to do with elections?

My original question remains unanswered since your name is not Buhari

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Buhari is described as twice calling for a revolution before he came to power.

Perhaps he could help answer the qs of what he was thinking then of how a revolution could work.

toyin


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but

the links show two calls for revolution

only one was through the ballot box

i still think that as a Buharist, you would do well to get his thoughts on this subject

who better for you to learn from than the leader you so admire?




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​Who described Buhari as twice calling fo revolution before he came to power? At what time and in which year did Buhari ever call for revolution to bundle out the president of Nigeria from office?

​From the links submitted by you, it was only stated that the supporters of ANPP of which Buhari was the presidential candidate staged protests at the election petition tribunal against the outcome of 2003 presidential election. There was no evidence that Buhari even called  or led the protest.

​In 2011, Yinka Odumakin who was the spokesman of Buhari, but now opposed to him, said that, "The Egyptian pro-democracy campaigners defied all odds to achieve their set goal of terminating the 30-year old grip on power by Mubarak. Their tenacity has again confirmed the truism that no force on earth can stop a people determined." Please take note that Yinka Odumakin spoke of the Egyptian pro-democracy campaigners and not of Egyptian revolutionaries. When Buhari spoke later on the impending 2011 Nigerian presidential election, your submitted link quoted him as having said, "Unlike the Egyptians who went through self-denial for 18 unbroken days to achieve their aspiration for leadership change, Nigerians just have to take their voter cards, vote on each election day and ensure that their votes count and are properly counted. It is time to demonstrate people's power to free our country from those who have held it hostage for the last 12 years and are threatening to keep it so for 60 years." Obviously, Buhari was not calling for a change of government leadership in Nigeria through protests as it was in Egypt. He only urged Nigerians to make use of their voting cards to effect a change of government in Nigeria in the impending 2011 presidential election. In comparison to Buhari's statement in 2011, this is what Omoyele Sowore said on 25 July 2019, 

"​I am not talking of protest. I'm embarking on revolution. 85% of Nigerians are in support. Don't tell me about legal implications or what a Judge will say. I don't care. We must bundle Buhari out of that place, the DSS shall seize to exist." Omoyele Sowore was a presidential candidate in the February 2019 election in which 85% of Nigerians he now claims to support him for a revolution didnt vote for him. He was not talking of protest as he assured he was embarking on a revolution to bundle out Buhari from office. Sowore was planning to commit treaason and his arrest was justified. His bail was grounded on a flagrant abuse of judicial power birthed by the corrupt Nigerian Judiciary because nowhere in the world is a person accused of treasonable offence is ever granted bail. It is legitimate for the DSS to ignoreillicit order. What normal Nigerians should ask is, why has his trial not begun since August 2019?
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Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

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the guilty are afraid

Sowore controls no army

most nigerians are not armed

so what is the fear really about?

you control the army, the police and all security agencies

you have your Fulani herdsmen miltia terrorists and kidnappers holding the nation hostage

yet you become jittery bcs an activist calls for a revolution to remove you from power

how will he do it?

ahhhh.....you know.....the people become emboldened, see through the ultimate hollowness of your so called rule and treat you like they did Mubarak, come out in droves to say-no more!

remember when Mubarak's fate was being decided, you stated thus-


'The military in Egypt showed exemplary conduct with the way they refused to be used to attack the forces of change,” Buhari was quoted to have said.

“They showed the whole world that there is a clear difference between the state and those who temporarily occupy political offices for a fixed tenure. This is a lesson for our security agents who have been used to subvert the will of the people at elections in recent past.

“The time has come for our own security forces to demonstrate similar valour by putting national interest above that of individuals when there is a clash between the two.'

The RevolutionNow protesters were doing what those in Egypt were doing-simply protesting and demanding a change in the status quo.


you are the same person who promised there would be a bloodbath[ 'the dog and the baboon will be covered in blood]  if what happened in 2011 [ you lost the election since you had little presence in the South] happens again in 2015'

yet the govt did not challenge you for that treasonous  threat to the nation

in 2011 your  supporters massacred innocents in revenge for your  loss and you let them get on with it.

you were not challenged by the govt

you are the same man who first came to power by truncating a democratically elected govt through a coup

the normal punishment for that is a court martial and an execution 

yet gullible nigerians gave you a second chance

have you justified their trust?

do you have reason to think they will see through the folly of anyone calling your removal, since you are such a conscientious leader?

or, on the other hand, the rivers of blood the Fulani herdsmen terrorists unleash across the nation, the kidnapping and murders they have made their province, the declaration of the power over who lives or dies in nigeria by your ethnic organisation miyetti allah, your treating yourself regularly in London while the nations health care is in shambles and many more, the descending naira, the rise in poverty, the continued inconsistent electricity, recurrent disobedience of court orders,  as your lackeys craft bills to stifle critique  of your govt...and many more...

could they be laying all these as grievances at your your doortsep, making  you fear a gunless revolution...?

wise man

or 

foolish man?

you might recall the Iranian Revolution

you are wise to fear

but why fear if you are a true servant of the people?

but does the day of judgement not steadily approach....?

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That was the only one that called for revolution!

Can you quote the second one here for us to see?

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the links show two calls for revolution

only one was through the ballot box

i still think that as a Buharist, you would do well to get his thoughts on this subject

who better for you to learn from than the leader you so admire?




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​The Revolution Now were doing what those in Egypt were doing - simply protesting (for) a change in the status quo - Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju. In order to expose the hollowness of Mr Adepoju's assertion, let's recall Omoyele Sowore's public announcement of 25 July 2019, barely five months after he partook in a presidential election which he lost but did not challenge the result at the election tribunal as stipulated by the law. I am not talking of protest. I'm embarking on revolution. …//… We must bundle Buhari out of that place … Omyele Sowore. While the spontaneous Egyptian pro-democracy protest was aimed at 30-year-old dictatorial grip on power by Husein Mubarak, Sowore was embarking on a revolution to bundle out of office the second term elected president Buhari. Even a person with highest degree of Stupidity Quotient in the world must agree that what Omoyele Sowore announced to do on 5 August 2019 was treason since he himself said he was not talking about protest.

However, both the DSS (prosecution) and Court mismanaged the case. Omoyele Sowore was arrested on August 3, 2019, and according to the law he ought to be charged to court within 48 hours. Contrary to the opinion being touted to the public, treason is not a bailable offence anywhere in the world. In fact, it is corrupt and irresponsible on the part of the Judge to have deliberated on bail issues when he /she ought to have seen to it that the treason trial of Omoyele Sowore began not later than a week after his first arraignment in court and judgment delivered a month later. Whether, Sowore controls an army with which he could bundle Buhari out of office and as such his public statement is not equal to treason cannot be decided by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju, but by a Judge of legal court.
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What does one do when people cannot debate without using words like 'stupid'?

What does one expect, when dealing with a person who was able, with a straight face, to declare that national ruler Muhammadu Buhari stating his wife belongs 'in the other room' is not a problematic statement, even as the foot-in-the-mouth character was addressing a female head of state and her female minister of defense in another country?

The Arab Spring was about regime change, was about demanding democratic transformation through the power of the citizenry, armed only with their will, their voices and their bodies.

The Arab Spring that removed govts in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Libya...

That is the power of an Omoyele Sowore which the steadily emergent dictator and terrorism enabler is well aware of.

Call it any name you like-revolution, treason, foolhardiness-it needs to be done and we thank God Sowore is doing even if we cannot do it ourselves.

An end to govt enabled terrorism. An end to transforming Nigeria into an ethnic fiefdom. An end to govt by politicians, of politicians and for politicians.

Reworking how govt is run in Nigeria. Moving from govt as a feeding pipe for  the few as the majority grow increasingly poorer. 

The issues encapsulate the dangerous character in Aso Rock but go beyond him.

But then, the news is the character being referred to is not in control, according to analysts of the variety of his own wife, Aisha Buhari and Farooq Kperoqi.

Kperoqi says he suffers from dementia, and is barely aware of his environment, but his one eyed ideologies are taken forward by the fanatics he surrounded himself with when he was still capable. The extreme range of that view comes from the Nnamdi Kanu school who declare that he passed away in the UK and has been replaced by a double.

May we not gloat over any one's real or alleged misfortune.

The qs these views-from Aisha, Kperoqi, Kanu throw up is- what is the significance of the signals igniting these claims?

Nigerians should demand answers.

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Ogbeni Salimonu Kadiri,
These are just flippant excuses to defend a dictator in civilian cloth. Did Buhari correct his followers who called for revolution? Did he not threaten to soak people in blood if elections were rigged in 2015? When hundreds of  people died, including hapless youth corps members, as a result of that hapless statement, did anybody arrest him? Where is the weapon that Sowore has imported to overthrow this government? Did you not read of the massive rigging of the  election that brought him to power?To me Sowore was just moved by what Cornel West calls Prophetic fire, which drive the likes of William Du Bois, Marcus Garvey , Kwame Nkrumah to chase out the colonialists, at least politically. We need that fire to drive out internal colonialists of which Buhari and his company are the current face.   I think in this circumstance and given the logic of your argument, you are not different from Justice Sowemimo who sentenced  Chief Awolowo to jail because he said his hands were tied. History will judge all us for the stand we take on national issues, whether out of political expediency or out of sheer  illogic of reasoning. The other day you wrote lengthy essays on how some intellectuals propped up the Nazi leadership. What you and some pseudo intellectuals are doing now is propping up a dictator in the garb of civilian President. 
Shaking my head

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Toyin: 

 Your responses sometimes border on the bizarre.

So you are prepared to believe Buhari passed away and is replaced by a double who was voted in last February.

So you believe what a non medical practitioner like Farooq Kperogi says about the mental health of the  president of your country.

So you believe a person like Sowore can bring down a democratically elected government in your country without catastrophic national consequences.

I shake my head.....

Oro pesi je! (Im dumbfounded)

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What does one do when people cannot debate without using words like 'stupid'?

What does one expect, when dealing with a person who was able, with a straight face, to declare that national ruler Muhammadu Buhari stating his wife belongs 'in the other room' is not a problematic statement, even as the foot-in-the-mouth character was addressing a female head of state and her female minister of defense in another country?

The Arab Spring was about regime change, was about demanding democratic transformation through the power of the citizenry, armed only with their will, their voices and their bodies.

The Arab Spring that removed govts in Tunisia, in Egypt, in Libya...

That is the power of an Omoyele Sowore which the steadily emergent dictator and terrorism enabler is well aware of.

Call it any name you like-revolution, treason, foolhardiness-it needs to be done and we thank God Sowore is doing even if we cannot do it ourselves.

An end to govt enabled terrorism. An end to transforming Nigeria into an ethnic fiefdom. An end to govt by politicians, of politicians and for politicians.

Reworking how govt is run in Nigeria. Moving from govt as a feeding pipe for  the few as the majority grow increasingly poorer. 

The issues encapsulate the dangerous character in Aso Rock but go beyond him.

But then, the news is the character being referred to is not in control, according to analysts of the variety of his own wife, Aisha Buhari and Farooq Kperoqi.

Kperoqi says he suffers from dementia, and is barely aware of his environment, but his one eyed ideologies are taken forward by the fanatics he surrounded himself with when he was still capable. The extreme range of that view comes from the Nnamdi Kanu school who declare that he passed away in the UK and has been replaced by a double.

May we not gloat over any one's real or alleged misfortune.

The qs these views-from Aisha, Kperoqi, Kanu throw up is- what is the significance of the signals igniting these claims?

Nigerians should demand answers.

Toyin








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