The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has condemned the government of President Bola Tinubu for suggesting that there is a link between the protests in some parts of the country and possible plans to overthrow the government.
According to the #RevolutionNow convener, Sowore it was hypocritical of the government to tell Nigerians to shelve their grievances and wait until the next election cycle in 2027.
He said this against the backdrop of the government’s response to the #EndBadGovernance protests in which protesters were told to wait till 2027 to express their grievances at the polls.
After the #EndBadGovernanace protest, some protesters were arrested and charged to court for alleged attempts to overthrow the Tinubu government.
Speaking on Tuesday in Ikeja, Lagos State during the latest protest tagged #FearlessInOctober, Sowore denied any plan by the protesters to overthrow the government.
The news publisher also noted that when the All Progressives Congress (APC) was in the opposition, they also carried out the Occupy Nigeria protests while a sitting government was in place.
“When the APC wanted to come to power — there was a government in place — they started protesting in 2012. The election was in 2015. Did they wait for 2015 before they started Occupy Nigeria? That is my answer, they are just a bunch of hypocrites,” Sowore told FIJ.
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