The African Action Congress (AAC) has declared August 5, 2019 as the commencement date of revolution protests tagged ‘Days of Rage’ across the country to demand for a better Nigeria.
Omoyele Sowore, the AAC presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections, disclosed this to NEXT EDITION in Lagos on Monday, as a fall-out of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held in Abuja at the weekend.
He said that the protest would be sustained until the Federal Government put the country on the right path of honour, where justice would prevail.
Sowore maintained that the Federal Government’s action compelled the AAC to go revolutionary, noting that there was no level playing field in the last general elections.
He said: “Election is a place we would have carried out a revolution of the ballot box but they stole the ballot box. They hijacked materials that were meant for free and fair election and as a result they did not organise any election that was credible enough for people to have faith in the ballot box.”
Sowore, a human rights activist, maintained that for the country to have free and fair elections in the future there must be a showdown and people must define who should be their electoral officers.
He said: “The revolution has therefore become inevitable. We didn’t choose to go for revolution they choose it by ensuring that there was no level playing field in the last election.
“As you know, they did it in Sudan and it was started by some females. They were making fun of them but they did not stop until doctors joined them, the labour union joined them and what started as five people became 5,000 and 500,000 and became 5,000,000 and the regime fell.
“So, don’t let anybody deceive you that in asking for a better government or country you are committing any illegality. The biggest illegality being committed in Nigeria as of today is the rigging of election in 2019.
“The moment you don’t allow people to express their God giving rights to choose their leaders, you are committing an illegality and inviting resistance.”
He said the proposed revolution inevitable, adding that the group has mobilised people in Lagos and many parts of the country to create places of community resistance.
Sowore said the party had succeeded in creating awareness for the people to speak up and be resistant to all form of poor services from the government, adding that the consciousness being raised among Nigerians was not to promote or encourage violence but to create the culture of resistance in them.
“I am not the only one asking for a revolution 84% of Nigerian according to a poll we conducted want a revolution. They don’t want war, but these people want to drive us into war so that we can all be exterminated at once.
“We don’t want war, we want a very clean , quick and succinct revolutionary process that will put an end to the shenanigans of government, oppression and corruption.
“Don’t ask me weather I am afraid or worried about the legal implications of what I am saying I am carrying out a historical duty and only history can judge me not a prosecutor or a federal judge. You can’t kill somebody who is not afraid of death,” Sowore said.
