Some may be shocked that I’m naming my Man of the Year so early. But then, this is the latter part of October and this month happens to be in the very fourth quarter of the year.
Kilo tun ku?
I’ve never met the guy personally and we might not agree politically, at least to some degrees.
However, there’s no reason to doubt the robustness of his democratic credentials. He is a pro – democracy activist. He is also a defender of human rights.
He was born on 16th February, 1971 to a polygamous family. He hails from Ese Odo, in Ondo State.
He attended the prestigious University of Lagos where he studied Geography and Planning. He later became the President of the Unilag Students’ Union.
During his presidency, he was involved in an anti-cultism battle that nearly cost him his life. The cultists were alleged to have forced him to drink acid.
He led student demonstrations in 1989 while protesting the N120m loan to be used for Nigerian oil pipeline. Well, that was the beginning of this veteran of many battles.
He was also at the battle front in 1992. Then on the June 12, 1993 issue, he showed which side of the divide he really belongs to.
He participated in the last elections in Nigeria as a presidential candidate.
He was arrested in August 2019 for ‘announcing an intending protest’ for Revolution Now. After he was discharged on bail with stringent conditions, the government arraigned him in court again for reasons as silly as that he insulted the president and a strange one of currency trafficking.
But he should be gratified that he’s passing through the corridor GREAT men have passed through.
For those who are saying he doesn’t have any right to announce he was going on a revolution protest simply because he contested the presidency and lost, I don’t believe they are conversant with the law, if applied properly.
Omoyele Sowore, what you’re passing through is only for sometime!
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