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Yes, today in New York, I joined the Free Palestine protest. No justice, no peace! #FreePalestine! I condemn the genocide being committed by the state of Israel in Gaza. I joined to make it clear that Nigerians stand for justice and human rights for Palestinians.

The lying machines have suddenly realized that their position on fuel subsidy is deeply unpopular. Now the dance around “restoring” subsidy has begun, vague promises, convenient reversals, and dishonest attempts to rewrite their own records. They can no longer sustain their past positions anywhere, whether in the North or the South. As public anger grows over the consequences of subsidy removal, they keep shifting, twisting and grifting, hoping Nigerians will forget what they said and what they supported. We have been consistent since the beginning of life, fuel subsidy should never have been removed in the first place. We will restore it transparently and confront the corruption and profiteering that were used as excuses for punishing ordinary Nigerians. They are shifting because the people remember. We are not shifting. #Sowore2027

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My tweet of October 13, 2020, about @PeterObi’s complicity in SARS remains evergreen, especially as the #EndSARS remembrance approaches. The same remembrance must confront the roles we have consistently accused Bola Tinubu @OFFICIALABAT and Lagos Governor @jidesanwoolu BABAJIDE SANWO-Olu of in facilitating and covering up the killing of #EndSARS protesters at the #LekkiTollGate in October 2020. This country suffers from amnesia (dangerous amnesia.) Those who understand this weakness exploit it, they rub salt into our wounds, rewrite the past, rehabilitate their favorite criminals and eventually turn history completely on its head. We must remember. We must preserve the records. We must continue demandingthat those who murdered innocent citizens are reminded of the day of reckoning. And we must never allow political convenience to erase history or rewrite the suffering of those who stood up against police brutality. #EndSARS

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TINUBU’S FAILURE TO OFFICIALLY HAND OVER POWER AFTER 21 DAYS: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MUST ACT TO REMOVE HIM NOW UNDER SECTION 145 OF THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION The National Assembly must immediately commence the constitutional process prescribed by Section 145(2) of the 1999 Constitution to mandate Vice-President Kashim Shettima to perform the functions of President as Acting President. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT left Nigeria on August 30, 2026, for a three-week vacation. That 21-day period has expired. Instead of returning, as announced, the Presidency stated on September 21 that Tinubu had extended his vacation abroad by “a few days.” Section 145 is unambiguous. Whenever the President proceeds on vacation, he shall transmit a written declaration to the Senate President and Speaker of the House, enabling the Vice-President to perform presidential functions as Acting President. Where the President fails or is unable to transmit that declaration within 21 days, Section 145(2) says the National Assembly shall, by simple majority in each House, mandate the Vice-President to perform those functions. As of today, no Section 145 declaration transferring presidential functions to Vice-President @KashimSM has been publicly established. The Presidency cannot invent a “working vacation” exception that does not appear in the Constitution. Its claim that Tinubu continues to “direct the affairs of the nation” from abroad does not answer the constitutional question. Indeed, the Presidency's own statement says Tinubu remains on vacation while merely “delegating” Shettima to represent him at certain functions. Nigeria can't be governed by press releases, telephone calls, or constitutional improvisation. Senate President @SenGodswill Akpabio and Speaker @ngrspeakerabbas must immediately tell Nigerians whether they received the declaration required by Section 145(1). If they did not, the 21-day threshold has passed, and the National Assembly must begin the process prescribed by Section 145(2) to mandate Vice-President Kashim Shettima to perform the functions of President as Acting President. This is no longer about Tinubu's vacation. It is about whether Nigeria will be governed according to its Constitution. The 21 days have expired. The National Assembly must act now. Omoyele Sowore Presidential Candidate, African Action Congress (AAC) 2027 General Election #Sowore2027

Paul C Nwabuikwu: @NOIweala -IWEALA’S HENCHMAN, REVOLUTION, MARIJUANA AND OTHER STORIES By Omoyele Sowore @paul_nwabuikwu, a longtime communications lieutenant of Ngozi Okonjo-@NOIweala, has written a lengthy piece on @THISDAYLIVE.com attempting to explain why Nigerians supposedly do not take my presidential candidacy seriously. Before dealing with his arguments, however, readers deserve to know where this sermon is coming from. Nwabuikwu served twice as Special Adviser to two-time Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a Bretton Woods lackey who, by the way, hates me with passion, to the extent that she wrote a book and made up lies about me just because I challenged her when she came to Nigeria as a dollar-receiving Minister of Finance under the Olusegun Obasanjo regime. Indeed, Okonjo-@NOIweala herself recently recalled that she personally recruited him (Paul C Nwabuikwu) into her economic team because she needed someone to communicate and sell her “reform program” to Nigerians. That history matters because @paul_nwabuikwu now presents himself as an impartial examiner of who has substance and who does not. He is entitled to his opinions, of course, but Nigerians are equally entitled to examine the political and economic establishment from which those opinions emerge, and to ask whether they are informed by genuine analysis or driven by personal vendetta. Nwabuikwu describes me as an “eternal student activist,” a “perennial presidential candidate,” a practitioner of “SUG theatrics,” and essentially a noisy fellow whose politics is supposedly long on drama and short on substance. The insults may be entertaining, but they are not arguments. Yes, I was a student activist, and I am proud of it. At a time when many members of Nigeria’s current establishment were accommodating military dictatorship, some of us confronted it. Student activism was not a hobby or some extracurricular adventure. It was a revolutionary endeavor! Nigerians were jailed, expelled from universities, beaten, disappeared, and killed fighting for freedoms that commentators comfortably exercise today. If standing up to dictatorship as a student is supposed to be an insult, I will gladly wear it as a badge of honour. @paul_nwabuikwu then reaches for my 14,608 votes in the 2023 presidential election as evidence that Nigerians do not regard me as a serious candidate. He is free to interpret an election result however he wishes, but votes obtained within Nigeria’s profoundly unequal political system do not constitute an intellectual test of a candidate’s ideas; in fact, Paul had argued stridently in many posts that the 2023 elections were not credible. I guess he considers only the 14,000 votes allotted to me credible in his hypocrisy. If the number of votes secured automatically established the quality of one's ideas, then every entrenched political machine would, by definition, possess better ideas than every challenger. By that logic, Nigeria’s political establishment, which has presided over decades of poverty, corruption, insecurity, unemployment and failing public institutions, would have to be regarded as the greatest collection of political thinkers the country has ever produced simply because its members have repeatedly “won” elections. More importantly, Paul carefully avoids seriously engaging with what we actually propose. We have advocated a living wage of at least ₦500,000 for Nigerian workers. We have proposed mass public housing, free and quality education, fundamental police reform, an end to casualization, a radically expanded electricity system, modern mass transportation by rail, road, and water, agricultural value chains, industrialization, and a frontal attack on corruption, waste, and monopoly. These propositions can be interrogated, criticized, debated, and challenged. But pretending that they do not exist because “marijuana” produces a more amusing headline is intellectually lazy. Which brings us to marijuana. I have advocated the legalization and regulation of cannabis rather than the hypocritical criminalization of Nigerians while a global legal cannabis industry develops elsewhere, including through the World Trade Organization (@WTO), where Paul’s principal, Okonjo-@NOIweala, holds sway. The proposition was never that Nigeria should abandon oil (even though I am openly for transition from a fossil fuel economy to a green economic transition), agriculture, manufacturing, technology, and every other productive sector and transform itself into one gigantic marijuana farm. The argument is that #cannabis has legitimate industrial, pharmaceutical, and commercial applications, and that Nigeria should regulate and derive economic value from it rather than continue with an approach based overwhelmingly on prohibition and criminalization. @Paul may disagree with that position. That is perfectly legitimate. But disagreement with a policy is not the same thing as demonstrating that the policy has no substance. Then there is my statement that my Defence Minister would be “a drone.” Paul apparently heard the slogan and stopped listening. The point is, however, straightforward, Nigeria cannot effectively confront increasingly sophisticated armed groups by endlessly purchasing expensive conventional platforms while terrorists, bandits and other armed groups exploit cheap technology, intelligence gaps, difficult terrain and rapid mobility. A modern Nigerian security doctrine must make unmanned aerial systems, surveillance, intelligence gathering, domestic defence technology and precision capabilities central to protecting our people. The expression “my Defence Minister will be a drone” is deliberately memorable, but behind it is a serious proposition about the technological transformation of Nigeria’s security architecture. Calling the idea “shock” does not answer it. @paul_nwabuikwu 's essay also contains a revealing contradiction. He acknowledges my record of exposing injustice, defending poor Nigerians, and enduring harassment and detention by the state. He even rejects the conspiracy theory that I am secretly an establishment operative because, as he effectively concedes, the price I have paid confronting successive governments makes such a theory difficult to sustain. Yet somehow, after acknowledging all of this, he still manages to reduce everything to “performance.” I have been detained, prosecuted (persecuted), attacked, and imprisoned under different governments. @SaharaReporters has exposed powerful people across political parties, administrations, and economic interests. We have stood with ordinary Nigerians whose names would never appear on the guest lists of the powerful, people who had nobody else to call and whose cases offered neither money nor political advantage. That may look like theatre from the comfort of an editorial boardroom, but it is certainly not theatre to the people whose freedom, livelihoods and sometimes lives are at stake. @paul_nwabuikwu also wonders why I criticize former Vice President @atiku Abubakar, ex-Governor Mr. @PeterObi and other establishment politicians. The answer is uncomplicated, I am not running for president to become their friend. I am running against an entire political order. I have consistently argued that Nigeria requires a clean break from the political class that has recycled itself through the @OfficialPDPNig , @OfficialAPCNg , @NgLabour Party, and their various permutations. When their records and policies deserve criticism, I will criticize them. When the Tinubu @officialabat government deserves RESISTANCE, I will do precisely the same. I do not believe that opposition to Tinubu requires me to suspend my judgment about everybody else who wants his job. That is what ideological independence means. Perhaps this is the fundamental disagreement between Paul Nwabuikwu and me. He comes from a tradition that believes Nigeria can be repaired through another round of elite-managed reforms, half-clever technocrats, and carefully packaged policies sold to suffering Nigerians by professional communicators. I believe the structure itself must collapse. Nigeria cannot remain a country where a tiny political and economic elite enjoys extraordinary wealth while workers cannot afford food, housing, transportation, healthcare, or their children’s education. We cannot keep recycling the same people, the same economic orthodoxies, the same political arrangements, and the same excuses, then describe anyone demanding fundamental change as “unserious.” @paul_nwabuikwu concludes that voters supposedly enjoy my politics as entertainment but “see through the act.” That is his opinion, and he is entitled to it. I will continue to travel across Nigeria (possibly across the globe), speaking directly to workers, students, farmers, market women, young people, and communities abandoned by the political establishment. I will continue explaining our program, defending it and submitting it to Nigerians for scrutiny. I am not asking Paul Nwabuikwu or any member of Nigeria’s establishment commentariat to issue me a certificate declaring me a “serious candidate.” The Nigerian people will ultimately make their own judgment. To me, @paul_nwabuikwu represents a professional bogeyman. Unlike the establishment Paul has spent much of his professional life explaining and defending, however, we are not promising Nigerians another expertly communicated version of the same system. We in the @aacparty intend to fundamentally change that system through social revolutionary justice. That is what we mean when we speak of revolution. It is not about marijuana, headlines, theatrics, or the caricatures @PaulNwabuikwu finds convenient. It is about changing who Nigeria works for, how it distributes its resources, how its institutions function, and whether ordinary Nigerians can finally live with dignity in their own country. That is the revolution. -Omoyele @sowore is the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) for Nigeria’s 2027 general election. #Sowore2027

Remember all those G5 meetings, including the meeting with Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in London, @GovWike's political maneuvering, Mr. @PeterObi's visits to Rivers State, and all the glowing compliments Wike received from some Obidients like my sister, @AishaYesufu's "Wike Keena"? Now Wike is singing like a canary about what happened in 2022/2023. We said then that more was going on behind the scenes than Nigerians were being told, and that some of these political actors were helping Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT while publicly presenting themselves differently and blackballing any Nigerian with a different opinion. I always said it was a packaged fraud, i have now been vindicated. They ensured no revolutionary change would happen. They never wanted things to change in the first place. You all know better now! Instead of answering those questions, they attacked and blackmailed everyone who challenged the arrangement. Nigerians should revisit what was said and done at the time and compare it with what Wike himself is saying today. Don't let them deceive you again! #Sowore2027

Taping of #InsideSources with @LaoluAkande in New York City. Stay tuned for it on @channelstv this Friday

Same old song: “Sowore is the voice of conscience, but he is not running for office.” This is their new campaign to dampen the spirit of Nigerians who have moved away from their prebendal politics. But at least you admit one thing: Sowore will tell the truth, and he won’t sugarcoat it just to make you guys feel good about the ruination of Nigeria that you all partook in. #Sowore2027 #SoworeIsComing

Dear @Donald_Duke thank you for describing me as a “voice of conscience” and acknowledging that I say the things others in politics are too “civil” to say, even when they know those things are true in today’s @vanguardngrnews But let me clear up your uncertainty and this is important for posterity, I AM RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA IN 2027. In fact, INEC’s final list released has Omoyele @Sowore as the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress @aacparty just as it has @DonaldDuke as the candidate of the @PrpNigeria . Perhaps what makes my candidacy difficult for some members of Nigeria’s political establishment (including yourself) to understand is that I am not running for office in the conventional sense of seeking power for its privileges, appointments or access to the national treasury. We, in the @aacparty are running to fundamentally change Nigeria. We are running to dismantle the rotten political order that has kept our people poor while enriching a tiny ruling class. We are running for equal rights, revolutionary justice, a living wage, free and quality education, decent healthcare, security, electricity, housing and a country that finally works for its people. And that is precisely why we will not disappear into an “opposition coalition” whose principal ambition is merely to replace Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT with another member of the same establishment. Essentially replacing a thief with a burglar. So, my dear Mr. Former Gov. @DonaldDuke, there should be no confusion, yes, I am a voice of conscience, yes, but that voice is also on the ballot. See you on the campaign trail! By the way, consider yourself lucky that you arrived late to the presidential debate at the Nigerian Bar Association @NigBarAssoc Annual General Conference in Port Harcourt. I would have cleared your doubts by now. Ask @PeterObi and @ChibuikeAmaechi they will tell you how serious of a candidate @sowore is #Sowore2027 #TakeItBack

Soon as I raised the real reason Tinubu couldn’t go to #UNGA, even when his so-called host, @EmmanuelMacron had left for #UNGA, Tinubu @officialABAT announced he would extend his vacation by a few more days I am certain this was to get more medical treatment and then return to Nigeria packaged for a re-selection they’ve been planning all along for 2027. In all these, not a single word about handing over to anyone as his VP is also in New York for the annual UN jamboree. But things are not going to be the same going forward; the lies, deception and subterfuge have collapsed. #TinubuMustGo

Tinubu has been away for more than 21 days, allegedly on vacation. The VP Kashim Shettima has also left Nigeria for UNGA, with no handover notes in sight. Who is in charge of Nigeria at the moment?