Nigerian Youth - Please Apologize to Omoyele Sowere

Truthfully Sowore is someone Nigerian youth should be trying to emulate and his rise to prominence is not strange or mysterious.

It is not his fault that his investigative reporting contributed in ending GEJ’s corrupt regime, it is Buhari who became the problem instead of the solution we voted for.
You fence him from endsarsnow but you all forget he came back from America to lead the revolution (after meeting with Nnamdi Kanu) shortly after the rigged 2019 elections, but got arrested when the mood was very hot.
He was detained for months by the DSS as the fury died down and was released months later and his passport may have been seized. Still he soldiered on to launch his delayed 2019 revolution (
Take it Back Movement
) in 2020 (
Sowore2019! TakeItBack Movement Lagos chapter
) that you have all forgotten, but it laid the groundwork for ENDSARSNOW.
Typical of hypocrisy in high and low places, everyone will go to SAHARA REPORTERS later today, the one and only source of news in and about Nigeria, to get news about the agitation the prevented him from joining.
Is this how we treat a former student union leader and a fighter who reports about corruption and who interrupted conferences by our wicked leaders overseas.
A fighter who helped through his investigative reporting in removing a sitting president through the ballot box and who returned from the diaspora to contest to bring change, did you even support him with token votes for all his trouble.
A man who spent time in detention and who left his diaspora base to come and suffer. If he goes back now you all will be telling him to come back and join the fight and when he does you cast him aside, which diaspora person will like to come back to such a trap.
On top of that he is Columbia University graduate.
What is wrong with Nigerian youth, I wonder, why are you searching for illusory leaders when movements leaders are right in your midst.
Would it have hurt if he got some celebrity acclaim from being given some spotlight in a movement he has been pushing since 1990.
Instead, you gave audience to serving governors and allowed them make speeches and cajole you with sweat nothings and incidentally none of the prominent PDP opposition politicians joined or is shooting from the rafters in support of #endsarsnow
Nigerian youth must find a way to apologize and show some sense of recognition of SoworeNow.
Please open your eyes, for he is one of you, not one of them.
By Terhemba Osuji

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