AUGUST 5 #REVOLUTIONNOW: SOWORE CALLS FOR SYMBOLIC ACTION, MULLS WIDER MOBILISATION

 

Omoyele Sowore, the Convener of #RevolutionNow Movement has called for symbolic actions today , 5th August, 2021 , the 3rd Anniversary of the 5th August, 2019 #RevolutionNow Nationwide Mass Action.

This was made known in a MEDIA ADVISORY issues by Sowore and exclusively obtained by THE SQUIB. It will be recalled that Sowore was arrested in his hotel room at Ikeja,Lagos and whisked away to Abuja by operatives of Department of State Services on August 3rd , 2019, two days to the planned nationwide mass actions. He was subjected to almost a year long detention before being released on very stringent bail conditions , which includes restriction of his movement to Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The excerpts of the Media Advisory are as follows:

 "Today is August 5 2021, as expected, today marks the 2nd anniversary of the introduction of REVOLUTION into the political lexicon of Nigeria’s checkered history. It was the first time a group of courageous citizens took on the behemoth corrupt, undisciplined, incompetent, feudalistic and fascist Nigerian political system with the plan to distinctly demolish it to save Nigerians from perdition and possible extinction.  When the event of August 2019 hit in over 20 cities across Nigeria too it took many by surprise such that 5 million people searched and sought to know the meaning of REVOLUTION on google.com. 

Today, many of our citizens have gained more consciousness and better political understanding of how a REVOLUTION would put an end to their misery and birth a new era where social and economic justice will be accorded a prime place in their lives.  

The struggle for #RevolutionNow slated for today was dedicated to the release of unjustly detained citizens by the regime. We are happy to announce that the cowardly regime led by Muhammadu Buhari has yielded by releasing Shiites leader Ibrahim El ZakZaky, #Oduduwa12 abducted from the home of Sunday Adeyemo aka “Sunday Igboho,” #Dunamis5 arrested snd tirtured for wearing #BuhariMustGo Tshirts to Church, several #EndSarsProtesters  have all been granted reprieve while we pursue our next intensive struggle to #FreeNnamdiKanu and several other victims of impunity, we commend our commitment colleagues for a job well done!

These token victories would however not eclipse our ultimate goal to upturn the rotten system of patronage, greed, predatory conduct and authoritarianism by the Nigeria political elite led by Buhari. 

However, due to the need to have a bigger and larger mass action for this year, it was decided that we would step down today’s direct action and only engage in symbolic activities. A new date will soon be announced for a global mass action against tyranny and oppression in Nigeria. There is no alternative to a People’s REVOLUTION. #Revolutionnow #Buharimustgo"