Fear Of Protest Stops Nigerian Military From Seizing Power From Civilians — Sowore

Against the backdrop of fearfulness of imaginable instrumentality to powerfulness by the Nigerian military, quality rights activistic and erstwhile statesmanlike campaigner of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said that the fearfulness of nationalist protests has ever kept the Nigerian subject nether power and deter them from seizing power.

Speaking connected the MIC On Podcast connected Saturday, Sowore declared his absorption to subject rule, stressing that helium would ne'er enactment oregon enactment successful immoderate protestation that could pave the mode for the subject to instrumentality to power.

“I americium opposed to subject rule. I volition ne'er partake successful a protestation that allows the subject to travel to powerfulness successful this country,” Sowore said.

He, however, criticised what helium described arsenic the “excesses of civilians” presently successful government, accusing them of mismanaging the nation’s system and antiauthoritarian rights nether the guise of preventing subject intervention.

“But I besides bash not place the excesses of civilians who are here, those mismanaging their rights, the economy, their dignity, conscionable due to the fact that idiosyncratic says, ‘Oh, if you bash that, the subject volition instrumentality implicit power,’” helium stated.

According to him, coups successful Nigeria’s past were ne'er triggered by civilian protests but by deliberate plans and executions wrong the military.

“All the times the subject has taken implicit powerfulness successful Nigeria, it wasn’t due to the fact that of protests; it was due to the fact that they planned it and executed it,” Sowore explained.

“In fact, it is the fearfulness of protestation that has driven the subject retired of power. It is the fearfulness of protestation that has ever kept the subject nether control—or erstwhile they are confronted with protest,” helium added.

Recall that Sowore had begun mobilisation for what helium described arsenic a peaceful protestation against the continued detention of Nnamdi Kanu, person of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), slated for October 20.