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2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by sowore2019: 10:21am On Apr 21, 2018
The presidential ambition of the founder and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, received a boost on Friday as students, youths and groups from all parts of the Southeastern region at a town hall meeting in Owerri, the capital of Imo state, promised to join efforts by the presidential aspirant to take Nigeria back from the hands of the incumbent bad government at all levels in the 2019 general election.

In his address at the town hall meeting, Mr. Sowore, assured the mammoth crowd mostly made up of enthusiastic young men and women that Nigeria will be rescued from the hands of the current set of clueless leaders in 2019: "We are leaving Egypt and no longer going back to Egypt, we have left them and power has also left them. We are going to take back our country from them. Analog mentality cannot rule digital generation. I was a student union leader at the University of Lagos and we mobilized against military rule in 1999. 2019 would have been twenty good years we drove military away and had democracy.

“Our democracy must hit a landmark next year when the young people who have been fighting for this country will taste power for the good of Nigeria. There is a vacancy in Aso rock, power has left them and we are taking it back. We are tired of turn-by-turn politics in Nigeria. Enough is enough we tired of divisive, ethnicity and religion politics."

The presidential hopeful also took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent comment In London that Nigerian youths are lazy and only wait for free oil money.

While vehemently disagreeing with the assertion, Sowore told the youths emphatically: "We are not lazy, they are the ones who are lazy, and if you look very well, they never worked in their entire lives, they steal, loot and destroy our country. What about what happened to our president's son who has never worked before.

"Where did he get the bike he was riding in Abuja and had an accident.? Somebody who has never worked before and they used our money two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to ferry him from Abuja down to Germany for treatment and he came back and his father has the effrontery to be calling us lazy. We are nice people because if you do this to young people in other countries, they will shut down the country.

The presidential aspirant also used the occasion to reiterate some of his promises and how his administration will improve the lot of the citizens, if he is given the opportunity of becoming Nigeria’s president in 2019: "The workers will be paid 100,000 as minimum wage. We have been working on the calculation of how many students we have in higher institutions. Can you believe that the Nigerian University Commission does not know how many students are in our higher institution? They don’t know. But we have figured it out and we want to invest N50,000 each on every student so that when you cannot pay your school fee, you’re not denied your final result.
We have a duty to form our zone, which I called zone seven which they called geopolitical zones. They rotate power among those zones and we are creating our own zone seven and power is not going to be rotated for us, we are going to fight for the power and take it back. Look at Imo state, the man known as Sam Mbakwe built this state, but since he died and left as a governor they can't even maintain the roads he built. People who cannot do new things and maintain the old ones are the people who are lazy not our Nigerian youths. That statement alone is enough to incite a revolution.

"You must go and obtain your permanent voters' cards, (PVCs) and get set to chase away this corrupt and bad government come 2019 and install a government the youths can call their own. People tell us about the southeast that they want to leave this country, they want restructuring and Biafra, we must address it. You are not the only people who have left this country, most Nigerians have mentally seceded from Nigeria because of injustice and the injustice is huge.

"We cannot continue to have people who have war mentality, they have not finished the war they started in the 60s, that is while the Southwest and Southeast are broken down and they want it to remain so. They are still fighting the war in their heads. One of the first things we will do first as the Federal Republic of Nigeria next year is to apologize to the people of the Southeastern part of Nigeria. Nigeria must apologize to you for the injustices done to you, we must accelerate development of the Southeast. There's money in this country to develop it. Within four years of coming into power, not only would we complete the second Niger bridge, but will do a third Niger bridge with a fast train lane that can carry goods and services. It’s possible and achievable,", Sowore said.

A cross-section of the students and youths who spoke during the town hall meeting commended the presidential aspirant for championing the Take Back Nigeria Movement.

They also affirmed that the time has come for them to take their destiny into their hands while vowing that come 2019, they will vote out bad government at all levels with their PVCs and a better government that has the interest of the youths at heart in the person of the Sahara Reporters founder will be installed.

Meanwhile, a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Imo state, Prof. Francis Dike, has commended the founder of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore over his bold step of coming out to contest for the Nigerian presidency. Prof. Dike described Sowore as the hope of the young generation that has come to liberate the people from bad leadership: "Our country and I am so happy. Nigeria is failed state, nothing is working and I am happy to identify with you."

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), who gave the commendation when he played host to the presidential hopeful at his country home in Imo state shortly after the town hall meeting lamented the sorry and bitter state of Nigeria where nothing is working as a result of bad and failed leadership by successive governments in the country

http://saharareporters.com/2018/04/21/2019-sowore-gets-huge-support-southeast-youths-vow-vote-out-bad-govt

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by sowore2019: 10:23am On Apr 21, 2018


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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Topmaike007(m): 10:26am On Apr 21, 2018
ohhhhhhhh,this news don over sweet me
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Topmaike007(m): 10:29am On Apr 21, 2018
sowore2019:




carry on sire,if it is because of you I will go and collect my PVC..buhari is going back to daura

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by sowore2019: 10:30am On Apr 21, 2018
We should believe it is achievable. Many youth have been brainwashed into believing they can't get certain things right because they didn't belong to a particular clique.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by BUHARIISCURSED(m): 10:33am On Apr 21, 2018
Useless sowore, if he win make I bend

After he sold buhari to this country him too wan contest

I go vote buhari instead of this scam

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by slimghost(m): 10:37am On Apr 21, 2018
BUHARIISCURSED:
Useless sowore, if he win make I bend

After he sold buhari to this country him too wan contest

I go vote buhari instead of this scam


Has he ever denied that he made a mistake? He has accepted his mistakes so let's move forward.
If he runs against Buhari, he sure has my vote and every sane youth in Nigeria should also vote him.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by obonujoker(m): 10:40am On Apr 21, 2018
BUHARIISCURSED:
Useless sowore, if he win make I bend

After he sold buhari to this country him too wan contest

I go vote buhari instead of this scam

Bro, Sowore is better than Buhari... let's do this for Nigeria please....

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by ANIOMADEI2018: 10:43am On Apr 21, 2018
You may hate President Buhari for whatever reason, but there is something every Igbo must agree in his administration.

Since 1999, this is the first time, all the federal roads in southeast are receiving attention. In times like this, we must acknowledge some silent facts.

All the major federal roads in Igboland are under reconstruction, no president since 1999 has remembered us this way in terms of reviving the dearth of federal infrastructures in our region.

Why acknowledging this feat, we must as a people begin to differentiate between ethnic sentiment and genuine projects being upgraded that have direct benefit to our people.

These are some of the federal roads that works are ongoing in Igboland.

Pls verify and confirm.

They are;

1. Oba – Nnewi – Okigwe road linking Anambra state with Imo state.
2. Otuocha – Ibaji – Nzam road in Anambra state.
3. Abakaliki – Onueke-Abomega – Afikpo road
4. Nnenwe – Uduma – Uburu road connecting Enugu state with Ebonyi state.
5. Oji – Achi – Mmaku – Awgu road in Enugu state.
6. Ozalla – Akpugo – Amagunze road in Enugu state.
7. IkotEkpene – Aba.
8. Enugu-Onitsha expressway.
9. Enugu-PH expressway.

Southeast roads have not had this good.

Let's thank President Buhari for this.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by mrkunlex(m): 10:43am On Apr 21, 2018
let's join hands together and vote sowore or any other youth come 2019, let's snd buhari (old cargo) back to daura.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Cyynthialove(f): 10:45am On Apr 21, 2018
And he attached himself to Rev sisters just to woo some gullible followers to vote for him. These Rev Sisters should not allowed themselves to be used by this goat that campaigned against Jonathan in 2015 .

You campaigned for Buhari in 2015, so enjoy his administration while it last.
Ode !

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by JBismarck(m): 10:51am On Apr 21, 2018
As tantalising as Sowore's candidacy seems, Buhari still has my vote for now.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Mynd44: 10:56am On Apr 21, 2018
Sowore wont win. He will only split the opposition's votes.

What the opposition needs is alliances and not division

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by tayebest(m): 11:11am On Apr 21, 2018
Mynd44:
Haven't wont win. He will on split the opposition's votes.

What the opposition needs is alliances and not division

Guy, you understand politics.The Hausa man will never vote for sowore indeed. If Atiku eventually become PDP presidential aspirant, it means that the Igbos especially the IPOB will vote for Atiku. Sowore has bastardized IPOB, they can never forget his miserables against them! The southwest again will split in vote, some might go for Sowore because he is a Yoruba man or maybe because he is a youth.

woops, 2019 will be so interesting! wink

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by CSTR1003: 11:36am On Apr 21, 2018
This guy is only trending because PDP has not produced a candidate yet.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Mynd44: 11:39am On Apr 21, 2018
tayebest:


Guy, you understand politics.The Hausa man will never vote for sowore indeed. If Atiku eventually become PDP presidential aspirant, it means that the Igbos especially the IPOB will vote for Atiku. Sowore has bastardized IPOB, they can never forget his miserables against them! The southwest again will split in vote, some might go for Sowore because he is a Yoruba man or maybe because he is a youth.

woops, 2019 will be so interesting! wink
Sowore can't get more that Sonaiya

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Abjay97(m): 12:21pm On Apr 21, 2018
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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by SamuelAnyawu(m): 12:27pm On Apr 21, 2018
grin grin
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by delectablegyal(f): 12:30pm On Apr 21, 2018
the truth. if he does not belong to either apvssy or pdp, he can not win the election. quote me anywhere. forget about the ex education minister giving apc and pdp red card. it's a lie.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by joudini(m): 12:44pm On Apr 21, 2018
If any large opposition party or a coalition of parties is watching, they'd use this dude. I don't mean use him as a presidential aspirant for the 2019 election, but as a destabilizing force. The fact is that Sowore currently lacks the logistics and time to give him a credible chance at the polls. No matter how royal his idealisms are, the minds of the people are too remote to offer him a great chance in the next election.

To make a great mark in the presidential election, especially in a country like Nigeria, you have to ingrain your brand and resources especially at the local level. Sowore does not have the time nor the resources to do that. Even Atiku, a two-time VP, started campaigns a long time ago and is more ingrained in the corrupt system which is Nigerian politics.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by dodelight(m): 1:04pm On Apr 21, 2018
To me, supporting Sowore at this crucial time will only split the vote and in turn favour Buhari. Sowore himself presently is not a presidential material for a country like Nigeria cause there's no way you can govern this country as presently constituted without having a relationship with some past national leaders no matter how corrupt they are. That is reality. So, Sowore should learn the rope.

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by dodelight(m): 1:13pm On Apr 21, 2018
Mynd44:
Sowore wont win. He will only split the opposition's votes.

What the opposition needs is alliances and not division

Yes, brother. And it's good we keep sounding in everyone who wants this government gone on this.
Please, don't let's split the opposition vote, as this the only thing the APC is banking on.

#BuhariMustGo!
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by rattlesnake(m): 1:32pm On Apr 21, 2018
one ward in KANO with almajiri will outcount half of igbo votes

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Nobody: 3:01pm On Apr 21, 2018
Buhari 2019, Igbo Presidency 2023
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by deji17: 3:10pm On Apr 21, 2018
Sowore can only succeed in splitting PDP votes with them. No progressive will line up behind this pretender.
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by cdqyehyeh(m): 4:05pm On Apr 21, 2018
my vote goes to you, winning or not sowore for 2019

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Abass07(m): 4:12pm On Apr 21, 2018
So, this number of people translates to huge support?
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by 1nigeriamyfoot: 4:23pm On Apr 21, 2018
igbodefender:
Buhari 2019, Igbo Presidency 2023
bloody supporter of APC Fulani

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Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Leriland(m): 10:19pm On Apr 22, 2018
SOWORE 2019: The Man The “Lazy Youths” Deserve!
Know more about Dr Sowore Omoyele 2019 Presidential candidate �

Omoyele Sowore – Just in case you don’t know him:

He is an Alumni of the Great Citadel of Learning (University of Lagos), and here is a brief biography of him.

Full Name: Omoyele Sowore.
Date of Birth: February 16, 1971, Niger Delta.
Origin: Ondo State.
Nationality: Nigerian
Occupation(s): Blogger, Writer, Lecturer, Human rights activist.
Years of active activism: 1989 – present.
Twitter: @yelesowore
Website: saharareporters
Omoyele Sowore is a human rights and pro-democracy campaigner. He is founder and publisher of the much-cited SaharaReporters.com, website of citizen journalism, supplying videos, photos, news stories and commentaries that expose official corruption and abuse in Nigeria’s government.

Sowore for president 2019
Mr. Sowore is an indigene of Ondo State in South West Nigeria. He was born on February 16, 1971 in the Niger Delta region of the country where he was also raised. He studied geography and planning at the University of Lagos and holds a master’s degree in public administration from Colombia University. He teaches Modern African History at the City University of New York and Post Colonial African History at the School of Art, New York.

While in the University of Lagos, he was deeply involved in anti – military demonstrations and student unionism which ultimately culminated in his election as the President of the Student Union Government where he served between 1992-1994. His activism began in 1989, when he took part in student demonstrations protesting the conditions of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan of $120 million to be used for a Nigerian oil pipeline — the IMF loan conditions were to reduce the number of universities in the country from 28 to just 5.


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The presidential ambition of the founder and publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, received a boost on Friday as students, youths and groups from all parts of the Southeastern region at a town hall meeting in Owerri, the capital of Imo state, promised to join efforts by the presidential aspirant to take Nigeria back from the hands of the incumbent bad government at all levels in the 2019 general election.

In his address at the town hall meeting, Mr. Sowore, assured the mammoth crowd mostly made up of enthusiastic young men and women that Nigeria will be rescued from the hands of the current set of clueless leaders in 2019: "We are leaving Egypt and no longer going back to Egypt, we have left them and power has also left them. We are going to take back our country from them. Analog mentality cannot rule digital generation. I was a student union leader at the University of Lagos and we mobilized against military rule in 1999. 2019 would have been twenty good years we drove military away and had democracy.

“Our democracy must hit a landmark next year when the young people who have been fighting for this country will taste power for the good of Nigeria. There is a vacancy in Aso rock, power has left them and we are taking it back. We are tired of turn-by-turn politics in Nigeria. Enough is enough we tired of divisive, ethnicity and religion politics."

The presidential hopeful also took a swipe at President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent comment In London that Nigerian youths are lazy and only wait for free oil money.

While vehemently disagreeing with the assertion, Sowore told the youths emphatically: "We are not lazy, they are the ones who are lazy, and if you look very well, they never worked in their entire lives, they steal, loot and destroy our country. What about what happened to our president's son who has never worked before.

"Where did he get the bike he was riding in Abuja and had an accident.? Somebody who has never worked before and they used our money two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to ferry him from Abuja down to Germany for treatment and he came back and his father has the effrontery to be calling us lazy. We are nice people because if you do this to young people in other countries, they will shut down the country.

The presidential aspirant also used the occasion to reiterate some of his promises and how his administration will improve the lot of the citizens, if he is given the opportunity of becoming Nigeria’s president in 2019: "The workers will be paid 100,000 as minimum wage. We have been working on the calculation of how many students we have in higher institutions. Can you believe that the Nigerian University Commission does not know how many students are in our higher institution? They don’t know. But we have figured it out and we want to invest N50,000 each on every student so that when you cannot pay your school fee, you’re not denied your final result.
We have a duty to form our zone, which I called zone seven which they called geopolitical zones. They rotate power among those zones and we are creating our own zone seven and power is not going to be rotated for us, we are going to fight for the power and take it back. Look at Imo state, the man known as Sam Mbakwe built this state, but since he died and left as a governor they can't even maintain the roads he built. People who cannot do new things and maintain the old ones are the people who are lazy not our Nigerian youths. That statement alone is enough to incite a revolution.

"You must go and obtain your permanent voters' cards, (PVCs) and get set to chase away this corrupt and bad government come 2019 and install a government the youths can call their own. People tell us about the southeast that they want to leave this country, they want restructuring and Biafra, we must address it. You are not the only people who have left this country, most Nigerians have mentally seceded from Nigeria because of injustice and the injustice is huge.

"We cannot continue to have people who have war mentality, they have not finished the war they started in the 60s, that is while the Southwest and Southeast are broken down and they want it to remain so. They are still fighting the war in their heads. One of the first things we will do first as the Federal Republic of Nigeria next year is to apologize to the people of the Southeastern part of Nigeria. Nigeria must apologize to you for the injustices done to you, we must accelerate development of the Southeast. There's money in this country to develop it. Within four years of coming into power, not only would we complete the second Niger bridge, but will do a third Niger bridge with a fast train lane that can carry goods and services. It’s possible and achievable,", Sowore said.

A cross-section of the students and youths who spoke during the town hall meeting commended the presidential aspirant for championing the Take Back Nigeria Movement.

They also affirmed that the time has come for them to take their destiny into their hands while vowing that come 2019, they will vote out bad government at all levels with their PVCs and a better government that has the interest of the youths at heart in the person of the Sahara Reporters founder will be installed.

Meanwhile, a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Imo state, Prof. Francis Dike, has commended the founder of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore over his bold step of coming out to contest for the Nigerian presidency. Prof. Dike described Sowore as the hope of the young generation that has come to liberate the people from bad leadership: "Our country and I am so happy. Nigeria is failed state, nothing is working and I am happy to identify with you."

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (SAN), who gave the commendation when he played host to the presidential hopeful at his country home in Imo state shortly after the town hall meeting lamented the sorry and bitter state of Nigeria where nothing is working as a result of bad and failed leadership by successive governments in the country

http://saharareporters.com/2018/04/21/2019-sowore-gets-huge-support-southeast-youths-vow-vote-out-bad-govt

Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by Mobileowowa: 12:19am On Apr 23, 2018
Re: 2019: Sowore Gets Huge Support In Southeast As Youths Vow To Vote Out Bad Govt. by omowolewa: 12:27am On Apr 23, 2018
Good work from the Vice President, we waiting for the presidential flag bearer.

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