FLASHBACK: Tinubu, Buhari Called For Revolution, Nigerians Now Ready For Real Revolution, Says Sowore
Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the #RevolutionNow movement, has declared that Nigerians are now prepared to actualise the revolution that President Bola Tinubu advocated for in 2014, when he was an opposition party member.
In a recent social media post, Sowore, a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), noted that while Nigerians may not have been ready for revolution in 2011 and 2014, when Tinubu and former President Muhammadu Buhari respectively called for it, they are now eager for a genuine revolution, which the current administration will inadvertently bring about.
Sowore, who revealed plans for a nationwide #RevolutionNow protest on August 5, marking its fifth anniversary, declared, “They asked for a REVOLUTION and It is here now! Bola Tinubu @officialABAT once asked for a revolution, even Muhammadu Buhari @MBuhari once asked for a revolution and Nigerians now want to a real REVOLUTION.
“Nothing Can Stop An Idea Whose Time Has Come.”
In a 2023 video of Sowore addressing people about the need for a revolution, he said, “This Tinubu government will make it so easy to get revolution happen in Nigeria. It’s (Tinubu government) as if it is a blessing in disguise for ordinary Nigerians. He will be moving from mistake to mistake to the point that people will have no option but to drive all of them out.
“People are just looking around now and they think people are stupid. People are not stupid. People are just watching. One day, you will push them to the wall and they will push back, because there is suffering in this country now,” he added.
In a statement titled ‘A Return to Decency’ on September 29, 2014, Bola Tinubu, then the National Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), urged the people to rise up and demand change, effectively calling for a revolution.
This statement was widely reported in various national newspapers at the time.
“The longer they rule, the less benefit the people derive. Nigeria now needs a ‘common sense revolution’, a revolution that calls forth a return to decency, probity, transparency of process and fairness in outcome,” Tinubu said at the time.
“This is done not by subterfuge, divide and rule and turning Nigeria in a field of discord or a street of broken institutions.
“It is accomplished by honouring the principles of democratic good governance and economic justice.
“It is done by persuading the people they are better off as one instead of tearing at one another’s throats. Nigerians should be prepared for change.
“We must rescue Nigeria from those set to cause irreparable harm. The change I talk about is the only route to our deliverance from 16 years of the PDP locusts.”
Furthermore, in 2011, Muhammadu Buhari, then an opposition presidential candidate under the APC, advocated for a revolution to unseat President Goodluck Jonathan of the PDP.
