Omoyele Sowore,the African Action Congress (AAC) presidential aspirant, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to run for a second term in office.
Sowore who is also a publisher of Sahara Reporters, stated this on Thursday in Abuja when he led his ‘Take It Back’ movement to protest for the release of Samuel Ogundipe, a journalist who was detained by the Nigeria Police. The protest held at the entrance of the force headquarters.
Sowore, believes if Buhari decides not to listen to the advise given to him, then he should get ready to be disgraced at the polls.
Sowore revealed he decided to take part in the protest to demand for the release of the detained journalist in other to pass a message to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, that a new president would emerge in the 2019 general election who would not tolerate police excesses.
“That journalists cannot legitimately do their job in this country in 2018 is a disgrace,” the publisher said.
“We understand why, it was because this country made a mistake in 2015 to vote for somebody who does not believe in press freedom and even after his sick in London, he still doesn’t believe in press freedom.
“We have said it that if Buhari doesn’t leave Nigeria alone Nigerians will leave Buhari in 2019.
“But I am also here to send a memo to the police, that a new commander-in-chief is coming into town next year who would not longer tolerate police excesses.
“We are not going to tolerate the abuse of Human rights under our government and we are not going to tolerate an uncoordinated and incompetent police force without capacity to deal with simple matters such as understanding that a journalist has a right to publish a story and refuse to disclose his source wether he is detained, tortured or even at the point of death.
“The people that they should be arresting are politicians but they are the ones that they are protecting.
“As we speak now an average Nigerian governor who is a major thief is protected by over 200 police men, yes that is the official number that we know. Some of them have Soldiers, Naval officers, they have civil defence, they even have private militia,” he said.
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