#FearlessInProtest Will Start From October 1 To….— Says Sowore
The convener of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore, has declared that the #FearlessInOctober protest will take place on October 1, with or without his participation.
Sowore said this on Monday morning when he appeared on News Central TV which was monitored by SaharaReporters. According to him, the next massive protest will not end until the government fulfils all the requests made by the protesters.
He said: “And I want to make it clear here whether I participate or not and I am addressing our security people, it is going to happen. Just like the one in August, I was not here and it happened.
“Even in 2019, the protest that I was arrested for – #RevolutionNow – happened even though I was arrested two days before the protest. So nobody can stop it.
“I only know that it will start on October 1, I don’t know when it will end. Nigerians are tired of suffering. Did you know that in 2023 in France, French workers protested for six months non-stop? So why the complaint about the two months (the gap between #EndBadGovernance and #FearlessInOctober protests) when there is still hunger, starvation and corruption?
“People are even complaining that we should not announce the date, that it should happen spontaneously.”
The former African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate insisted that any citizen who feels it is apt for them to start the protest before October 1 should go ahead.
He continued: “And we said to anybody who feels that he is cheated or feels the burden of bad governance, they can’t buy gasoline, they can’t pay their band A or whichever band they put for electricity, they can’t pay school fees, and they feel strangled by the government, either by economic policies or political policies.
“If you feel any of these, you are at liberty to start whenever you want. But as an organisation that I am part of, this is how we always protest since I have been engaging in civil advocacy to bring about social change.
“I have never been engaged in a protest that is not peaceful. When a protest is announced and people are ready to march, it is already known that it is peaceful.”
He, however, asked if the government would “allow the citizens to freely express themselves”.
“You should ask government; it is the police that kill people. The protesters did not kill themselves. It is the police,” Sowore added.
