My 10 kobo advice to Omoyele Sowore

By Joe Igbokwe

I got to know Sowore through my good friend, Mr Peter Claver. Both of them graduated from the University of Lagos. We have been friends for years and we have reasoned together and interacted for years. However, I was stunned into disbelief and in total shock when he called a sitting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria a criminal. I advised him to withdraw the shameful scurrilous drivels and apologise to the President. Up till now he has not found the need to apologise to the President and Nigerians who elected him as president.

PBAT is not his mate. The President is an international Chattered Accountant, international scholar in the best tradition, former senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, former governor of Nigeria’s economic nerve center called Lagos State for eight years, and now the President of Nigeria, the biggest, the most populated country in Africa and the most endowed. Nobody living or dead in Nigeria has touched lives across Nigeria the way PBAT has done in the past 30 years.

Apart from being the President of UNILAG Student Union, I have not recorded any significant progress since he left Akoka apart from Aluta Continua business and life on the streets. These activities are getting diminished every day and does not make sense to people like us again.  When you call a President we all elected a criminal, it is at once telling us that more 200 million Nigerians are criminals. This is unacceptable. It is unbelieva