Reported by: Ijeoma G | Edited by: Henry Owen
Omoyele Sowore, veteran activist and campaigner for the validation of the June 12 mandate, has drawn a sharp — and chilling — parallel between the treatment of Chief MKO Abiola in the 1990s and the current handling of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.
In a forceful statement, Sowore recalled how the Abiola saga unfolded: the repeated invocation that “Abiola’s case is in court” served, he said, as a shield for a system that bought time, misled the public, and ultimately allowed injustice to proceed — culminating, in his view, in Abiola’s death just before a supposed release. “It was a well-orchestrated tragedy disguised as legal processes,” Sowore said, arguing that legal procedure was weaponised to mask political ends.
Turning to the present, Sowore said he sees the “same script” playing out in the prosecution of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu — the same manipulations, the same deployment of excuses, and the same “abuse of process.” He accused the authorities of manufacturing narratives and engineering public demonstrations to justify their actions, and warned that the language of repression has changed little even as the targets have.
Sowore also expressed grave concern for Kanu’s health after observing him during court proceedings on October 16, 2025. “The Nnamdi Kanu I saw in court on October 16 is very ill,” he said, calling urgently for efforts to “rescue him before another citizen is sacrificed to the blood-thirsty Nigerian elite club.”
Framing his remarks in historical context, Sowore appealed to activists and the public to resist complacency. “History is repeating itself before our eyes,” he warned. “And just as we fought to expose the truth then, we must do so now, before it’s too late.”
The statement was made known to the public by Omoyele Sowore.
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