Buhari killed Nigeria and Tinubu is burying it —Sowore

Human rights activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has claimed that President Bola Tinubu’s administration is merely presiding over the burial of Nigeria, which, according to him, was already destroyed by former President Muhammadu Buhari.

Speaking in an interview monitored on Symfoni, Sowore criticised the direction of the Tinubu administration and condemned the complicity of Nigerians who continue to support or tolerate it.

He said, “The Tinubu regime came to bury Nigeria after Buhari killed it. And people are still playing along with them. I don’t know what is wrong with Nigerians. We are not playing. That’s why we are not engaging in all this side hanky-panky about protests. When we are ready and when Nigerians are ready, we are interested in a revolution. We have made that very clear. Because that’s what can end this nonsense in our body polity.”

Sowore also dismissed the current crop of political opposition, calling them opportunists lacking true commitment to change.

“Not the kind of opposition where people like El-Rufai. No, those ones are not opposition. Those ones are coalitions of hungry people. So, and when the time comes, the moment they are offered what they want, they will go back to where they came from.

“Yeah, so that’s why you don’t say, because the APC was a coalition. And that’s still where they put us. And the people who are asking to form another coalition are former APC members. In fact, most of them are Buhari cabinet members who are supposed to be in prison. They are forming coalitions instead of, they should be in prison forming a union of prisoners. So what do you expect from that?”

“It is the Nigerian government that goes to the South-East to go and militarise it. It’s the Nigerian government that refused to release Nnamdi Kanu, something that would have solved a big problem. And then instead of releasing him, we’re going to put army in the east. Every kilometer in the east, there are army checkpoints. But after 100 kilometers in the north, you can’t find the army. There was a man in Kastina who said there are only five guns in the local government in Kastina State. So these things are deliberate. That’s what I’m telling you.”

He argued that until legitimate leaders were elected by Nigerians themselves, no real progress could be made.