He lamented that Nigerians had yet to rescue the country from the political class that contributed immensely to the current socio-economic challenges facing the country.
#RevolutionNow convener, Mr Omoyele Sowore has mocked the people of the southwest region of Nigeria who thought President Bola Tinubu wanted to be the country’s president for their interests.
Sowore made this known in his speech at a recent event organised by his supporters in New York, United States of America.
He lamented that Nigerians had yet to rescue the country from the political class that contributed immensely to the current socio-economic challenges facing the country.
Sowore added that the same people who benefited from the immediate past administration of Muhammadu Buhari remained in the corridors of power after Bola Tinubu took over power as President.
He said, “We have not rescued our country yet, so why the haste to write a book, documentary or a movie? We are not there yet because the guys who brought Nigeria to its knees are still in charge of Nigeria.
“It does not matter that they changed their cultural looks because when Buhari was in power, everybody was wearing a Hausa hat, but if you go to Abuja now, everybody is wearing Yoruba ‘pentagon’, because that is what is in vogue.
“It is all about business as usual because the man in charge now said it is his turn, he did not say it is Yoruba’s turn but the Yorubas accidentally and mistakenly thought he was saying it is their turn.”
“Now the Yorubas are facing what is called ‘enikanloba’ (Only those who are affected will suffer) not ‘emilokan’ anymore and the rest of Nigeria are facing what we call ‘renowned shege’ which is the opposite of renowned hope,” he added.
He also narrated his experience when he was unlawfully detained by the Nigerian Government for several months.
He continued: “So many people would want to ask me, what is detention like? There is nothing new about detention because I have been there before.
“But if you have never been to detention before, which was why I was advising my friend, Olu Faloye. I have been there before; you don't want to go there because one of the things they would do to you is to destabilise you. And they want to disempower you. They want you to beg for your rights.
“They want you to beg for the simplest things. For someone like me, who is used to it, I am a repeat offender when it comes to Nigerian incidents, I didn’t worry when they took away my phones, but someday I found a way to smuggle in a phone. I was making phone calls. Even the day they wanted to release me, they made a call to me and said, ‘They said they should release you.’
“When they came to me and said, ‘Go and get your things, we want to see you downstairs,’ I said I am not going anywhere. He went and came back and I went to make another phone call. They said, ‘What did you do to these people? They said they came and you said you didn’t want to leave.’
“He came back and said, ‘Mr Sowore if you don't go, we are going to force you.’ I said, ‘No! Tomorrow is Christmas, and I want to spend it with you.’ It was because I was able to smuggle in a phone.”
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