Sowore Slams Peter Obi , Claims He Started Youths Motivation , Not Obi

“ We don’t need to talk of Labor Party because the party doesn’t exist “ Says Sowore

Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) , has scoffed at the Labor Party presidential candidate , Mr Peter Obi’s last minute activism and youth motivation

In an exclusive chat with Ancestrals’ Adeyinka Olaiya from Brazil , the human rights activist said : “ That’s not something anybody else could lay claim to “

Sowore , according to his team started the Youth motivation and activism , “ it is strange now that Peter Obi who at a time was wining and dining with Atiku and Tinubu has suddenly turned to youth motivator “ – Says campaign team .

Mr Sowore has also expressed optimism that his party will defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress and main opposition Peoples Democratic Party during next year’s presidential election.

Sowore, who announced on Thursday in Abuja, said that his running mate has what it takes to deliver Kano, his home state, for the AAC during the 2023 general election.

“We hope to defeat APC over there because the governor has messed up; we know that we will defeat PDP, that’s the party that’s in crisis as we speak.

“We don’t need to talk about the Labour Party in Kano because the party doesn’t exist,” the AAC candidate said.

The human rights activist and pro-democracy campaigner has on several occasions arrested and released by the state security services (SSS) for leading constant revolutionary campaign against the government of Mohammed Buhari .

According to records , and for those who could spare a little time for students’ union politics in the universities in the late eighties and early nineties, the name would need little or no introduction in Youths activism

Sowore was the brave young man who held the reins of Students’ Union government as President of the University of Lagos Chapter and had ceaseless battles with the university authorities, student cultists and the then military government of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.

Significally, because of its several anti-people policies, the IBB administration experienced several students’ riots that often spiraled out of the campuses onto the adjoining streets and areas to mobilize the masses against the government.

It could be argued from a generational perspective that students’ unionism reached the peak of radicalism during this period; it was incessant just as it was profound on scale.

It would appear rather simple now for the uninitiated but to take on a brutish military Gestapo at that time required the indomitable courage of the steel-hearted.

Therefore, there is much to admire in a student union leader of that era because they put their lives on the firing line.

Sowore did not only confront the establishment but equally endangered his life in the even more dangerous battles with cult groups when cultists ruled the universities and their overbearing activities riled the minds.

The young man suffered untold hardship by way of various arrests and detentions, ceaseless threats to his life (there is an account that he was forcefully injected with poison by cultists) and dismissal.

That he survived all these difficulties showed an indefatigable spirit to overcome all odds and that God had other plans for him in the future

Activist, Deji Adeyanju , à supporter of Sowore said : “ Obi could not give to the Youths what already belonged to them “ he said

According to him , “everyone that has criticized Peter Obi has been threatened with death and a campaign of calumny by his supporters “

Deji Adeyanju insists that Sowore started youth motivation right from his university days , not Peter Obi , so the supporters of Obi should not lay claim to what is not .

Mr Obi’s candidature has gained grassroots support from Nigerians who see him as a better alternative to other candidates in the 2023 contest. His campaign runs on the energy of young Nigerians who describe themselves as “Obidient” followers on social media . The campaign team of Mr Peter Obi has included Youth motivation to his campaign.

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