Top politician, Buba Galadima, has named human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, as his role model.
Galadima hugged the spotlight during the time of Muhammad Buhari as President due to open disapprobation of the administration.
Buhari and the 77-year-old were together in Congress for Progressives Change, CPC, and had cordial relationship until the former was in office.
Currently a chiefain of New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, he announced his admiration for Sowore, the firebrand SaharaReporters publisher, in an interview with Vanguardonline in which he predicted that something to the effect that only revolution would take Nigeria out of the hoods.
“No, we are going somewhere. I may not be around when we get there but we are going somewhere. Something has got to reach its elastic limit before it breaks. It happened in Ghana one day. They became a saner society. It happened in Iran during Reza Pahlavi. They are sane people now. It happened in the Soviet Union. So, things must reach their elastic limit. All this useless power that you see, just wait one day. It’s just that we don’t have patience.
“I don’t want to mention the word revolution. Leave that word to Omoyele Sowore. He can educate you better on that.
“He is my role model. He is a courageous young man just like Malema of South Africa. I wish there would be a free and fair election. If there is a free and fair election, Sowore can win the election and come to the National Assembly. Then he becomes a Malema, a conscience of the nation. But how can he, now under these circumstances? When he doesn’t have what to give, or maybe he has, but he doesn’t give,” the publication quoted him as saying.
