Omoyele Sowore, rights activist and presidential candidate
of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2019 election, says the Buhari
administration is the “virus destroying the country”.
Nigeria has been battling the COVID-19 pandemic since March
with new cases recorded daily.
But Sowore, in a video, said the country will also have to
deal with a “leadership pandemic” that does not easily go away.
“I do not want to glorify the response of the government in
power, and the so called opposition, the PDP because these political parties
are themselves viruses that are destroying the health of our country both
physically, economically, politically, socially and culturally,” he said.
“It is the pandemic that I am talking about. So, let’s
discuss the revolutionary process that can take these guys out. At the end of
the day, the person holding the broom also has an umbrella that he’s keeping in
the house, so when the broom is not working, he goes for the umbrella. So, we
are dealing with the same set of people, no difference.
“I don’t glorify their responses with any modicum of
interest or attention. I don’t pay attention to what PDP is saying or what APC
is saying. The guys are just jokers. As soon as their loved ones are killed or
they become injured, again it comes back to the security. We have soldiers who
are either timid, the ones that are not timid are not motivated enough to
fight. And that is why small countries, like Chad; Chad for that matter is able
to deal decisively with Boko Haram whereas Nigerian soldiers are clapping for
them while they were entering Nigerian territory.
“I will say most importantly that it borders on leadership.
After every pandemic is over, there is a pandemic that doesn’t go away and that
is of leadership. Having bad leaders is the worst pandemic that could happen to
any country. It is the worst epidemic that can happen to human beings. Terrible
leadership, incompetent leadership, wicked leadership and that is afflicting
Nigeria. So, after COVID-19 is gone, we still have a pandemic that is not going
to go away. It doesn’t have any season, it doesn’t have any time, it doesn’t
have a deadline, it doesn’t have a flattening curve. It’s around with us and
until we get rid of that pandemic leadership forget about progress.”
In August, the #RevolutionNow convener was arrested and
detained for planning a nationwide protest against the government.
See the video below:
Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everydayVIDEO: Bad Leadership is Nigeria’s Greatest and Deadliest Pandemic! #RevolutionNow pic.twitter.com/SxtcZYAmn0— Omoyele Sowore (@YeleSowore) April 11, 2020
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