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born 1971 Nigeria
Omoyele "Yele" Sowore (born 16 February, 1971) is a Nigerian human rights activist, pro-democracy campaigner, former presidential candidate, and founder of an online news agency Sahara Reporters.
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My campaign is a movement. It is a campaign for all Nigerians and I am merely the arrowhead and the implementor of that great vision. It will be financed by the Nigerian people.
Niger, our neighbour to the north has some of the world’s largest nuclear reserves. The bottom line is that our energy mix must be diversified. The next pillar of my energy plan is decentralization.
Sahara Reporters is greater than one individual. It represents an ideal. The idea that ordinary citizens can acquire the power to hold their leaders accountable and speak truth to power
Our current president rode to power largely based on the premise that he would use his previous experience as a head of state and a military general to fight corruption and defeat Boko Haram.
When I win the presidency I will be turning the editorial function in Sahara Reporters as well as my financial holdings in a blind trust respectively.
You are trying to intimidate me and insult my intelligence just because you are a SAN. I have my own SANs
Even then – since 1999, we have been ruled by two former heads of state – Obasanjo and Buhari. What did Nigeria gain from their so-called experience?
To those who ask to know what my qualifications are – here is what I will say. For the past 30 years – my life has been dedicated and devoted to the cause of the Nigerian people.
I have a clear plan and my policy team is now in the process, tweaking detailed implementation plans for every sector of the Nigerian economy that we will soon be shared with Nigerians.
At the end you would have eliminated the ministry of finance, the auditor general’s office and that of the accountant general because those are the three offices in Nigeria that are largely responsible for corruption.
I think we have to be clear. I am a believer that the rights to protest is a fundamental human right but it does not include the right to suggest that you want to overthrow a constituted order. No, there is a difference.
The attempt by some lawyers, including Senior Advocate Musibau, to intimidate and harass us in court, issuing threats, attempting to destroy equipment, and even calling the police, only underscores the growing culture of impunity.
Let them tell us why the President’s secondary school and primary school certificates are not there. We all know that you cannot graduate from university without attending basic school.”
Nigeria is not currently attractive to PPP because the enabling policies are not in place, but equally as important, investors are wary of taking their funds into corruption ridden nations. I will fix all that.
Courtrooms in a constitutional democracy are open to the public not as arenas for performance, but as sanctuaries for the orderly administration of justice. Their openness promotes transparency and public confidence, yet it also imposes a duty of restraint on all who enter.
For the last three decades, my mission and those of a group of exceptional Nigerians who have aligned with mine have simply been to advance the conditions of the Nigerian people
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