Leader of the Indigenous People
of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari, the All
Progressives Congress, APC and its national leader, Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu over
the arrest of ‘Revolution Now’ protesters, calling on the Yoruba race to take
decisive action now or allow Sowore to rot in jail like Sambo Dasuki.
Recall that Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC in
the February 2019 election, had called for a nationwide protest against what he
described as bad governance.
The protest he tagged
“Revolution” Now was planned to take place on Monday, August 5.
However, his arrest by personnel
of Department of State Services, DSS, was announced in the early hours of Saturday.
Also, following an attempt by
protesters of Revolution Now to shutdown the Benin-Ore highway during the
protest, a journalist, as well as one of the protesters, were arrested by armed
security agents in Ondo State on Monday and this was repeated in most cities
where the peaceful protest held.
But Nnamdi Kanu, in a statement on Wednesday, wondered why Buhari, Tinubu and others who led a
protest against the government of Goodluck Jonathan in 2014, would arrest
Sowore and his supporters.
Kanu, who is still being wanted
by the Nigerian authorities, said, “Below are your typical British created
Nigerians, the worst set of people you could ever possibly encounter.
“Full of unbridled self-hate,
stupendous ignorance, hypocrisy oozing from every pore in their decrepit body
and filled with unimaginable wickedness.
“This same set of people now in
Aso Rock and their media friends that came out on the street to march, protest
and call for #Revolution against President Jonathan in 2014 are today the same
bunch of despicable reprobates against any form of lawful dissent, protest or
revolution against their regime.
“This is not only laughable but
an affront to decency, justice and fair play. Apparently, the occupants of Aso
Rock is telling the world they can call for a revolution and street protest
against a sitting president i.e. Jonathan, but nobody is allowed to protest
against them.
“Pathetically, some of these
poorly educated fellows from their ‘presidency’ come on their national
television to shamelessly provide a flimsy defence of what is clearly
indefensible.
“The same thing late Buhari did
in 2014 by openly calling for a revolution and organising nationwide street
protests with the likes of Bola Ahmed Tinubu against the democratically elected
government of Goodluck Jonathan is now a treasonable offence under their rule.
“Even going by the cringe-worthy
standards of the most hopelessly backward Banana republic on this earth, the
detention of Sowore for doing exactly what late Buhari did is a new low for the
Zoo.
“Why didn’t Buhari, Abba Kyari,
El-Rufai, Tinubu et al wait for the election of 2015 to remove Jonathan before
embarking on their 2014 Revolution as they are now sanctimoniously preaching?
Why did they take to the streets in protest, an action they themselves openly
tagged a revolution, before an election?
“The only language this Abba
Kyari led Fulani Jihadi cabal in Aso Rock understand is consistent mass action
and civil disobedience. IPOB has done and is still doing it and so too the
Shiite.
“What the Yoruba nation and every
conscientious person must do now is to rally round Omoleye Sowore to ensure his
release or else he will be another Sambo Dasuki detained indefinitely with no
constituency to mount pressure on his behalf as IPOB did in my case and Shiite
(INM) for Sheikh El-Zakzaki.
“#RevolutionNow is a laudable
initiative and must be commended by all lovers of freedom. What Sowore did in
calling for a revolution in Nigeria is the highest form of bravery. Protests
should continue and if need be intensified, especially in Yorubaland, until
Omoleye Sowore is set free.”
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