President Muhammadu Buhari with
his media spin doctors can’t just get over the ‘irritant’ activist and
#RevolutionNow convener, Omoyele Sowore, as he greeted another activist,
Comrade Amitolu Shittu on his 55th birthday.
In a message, Buhari contrasted
Shittu’s peaceful advocacy for a better society “without playing to the gallery
or with any self-promotion and personal aggrandizement.
Expatiating on the contrast
further, Buhari offers his definition of what activism should be: “Activism is
not the same thing as anarchy or fomenting insurrection@, the statement by Femi
Adesina, the media adviser said.
Sowore, Saharareporters publisher
and a failed presidential candidate in the 27 February election, had mobilized
Nigerians for street protests to demand a revolution in Nigeria on 5 August. On
3 August, DSS operatives plucked him off in Lagos and detained him, in defiance
of two bails given by the courts. His illegal detention became a huge international
embarrassment for the Buhari administration.
On Christmas Eve, Justice
Minister, Abubakar Malami ordered the DSS to release him, along with former
National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, detained since December 2015.
Since then, Aso Rock spin doctors
have not stopped attacking Sowore.
President Buhari wished Amitolu
Shittu, who is 55 tomorrow greater years of service to fatherland.
Buhari praised him as an
irrepressible social activist and saluted his sense of commitment to a better
society, which he resolutely advocates without playing to the gallery,
“The President recalls Amitolu’s
long and close relationship with human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi,
rising to become Deputy National Chairman of National Conscience Party (NCP),
and lauds him for keeping the memory of his mentor evergreen”, the statement
added.
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