I Would Have Supported SOWORE If….

It doesn’t matter how I look at it, I cannot ignore the fact that five months ago, there was an election in this country. Sowore was a candidate in that election. His party, AAC, contested in that election. Sowore had an excellent opportunity to present his vision to the people of Nigeria, and he did very well and very clearly.

The election was an excellent opportunity for you to support Sowore by voting for him in order to actualize his vision. You carefully considered his vision and completely rejected it. You refused to vote for Sowore. You refused to help actualize his vision. If we go by the election result, even as flawed as it might have been, Sowore did not get even 1% of your votes.

Less than six months after, the same Sowore came back to you for you to support the same vision you rejected, but this time he seeks your support through a revolution that he would lead. And you, having refused to support his vision in an election through your votes, decided to support his vision by revolution through your protest. You have to be foolish really, or totally dishonest.

If Sowore had not been part of the election process, I might have supported his revolution because that would be his only option to bringing about his vision. Indeed, it is the absence of election that makes revolution inevitable. Those who have the option of election cannot also have the option of revolution.

What Sowore tries to do is stupid and dangerous. If he is allowed to do it, it will mean that any politician who loses election can start a revolution in other to overturn the outcome of the elections.

You can argue from morning till night, what Sowore did is a classic case of treason. Nigerians rejected him in an election, and he tried to force himself on Nigerians via a revolution. Who is he trying to fool? Given the election results, he did not even come close to a point where he could claim to be a victim of rigging.

And if we may face reality for once, if we may drop all this noise and irrational sentiments, the government will prosecute Sowore for treason and they have very strong case. They can show that Sowore was trying to change the outcome of election which he lost. He was trying to overthrow the government that was produced by the election he lost. The fact that thousands of people moved into the street in response to his call for a revolution is the evidence that he moved from a mere wish to action.

The problem we can see is that because some people don’t like Buhari, they are ready to be flexible with their morality and logic. You are ready to support the revolution of the man you rejected in the elections because Buhari is the one in office. If Atiku were to have been the one in office will you support Sowore’s revolution? Indeed, if Sowore had won the election, will he be carrying out this revolution? You really have to understand how illogical you are. Buhari has a moral power to crush you and your ill-conceived and fraudulent revolution. You lose election and you try revolution.

Everybody that knows DPA will know that we never supported Buhari and we oppose nearly every one of his policies. But we have chosen to remain objective and rational over this. We will not join an irrational mob because it is popular to do so. Most of these people clamoring for revolution are professional agitators. They will join any riot or protest or revolution provided it is against their political opponent.

Also, many of the promoters of Sowore revolution are so unstrategic in their thinking. If you cannot mobilize in Kano and Port Harcourt for your revolution, it is a waste of time. If you whip up ethnic and religious sentiments against Buhari, he can counter in equal measure. Every successful revolutionary must take a realistic view of the factors on the ground. Sowore’s revolution is not consistent with the Biafran movement because while Sowore wants the Nigeria he can rule, the Biafrans want to be out of Nigeria. The only way support each other is if they are dishonest to each other. In other words, for Sowore to succeed even as a theory,  the Biafran project must fail. And for the Biafran project to succeed, there will be no Nigeria for Sowore to rule.

Likewise, Sowore’s revolution is not in the interest of PDP. The PDP is interested in winning the case at tribunal. It is only if they have lost hope in a favourable outcome at the tribunal that they can support any revolution, unless they are the secret sponsors of the revolution.

It will be irrational to support Sowore. However, as a human being, I will support his release but only on humanitarian consideration and on the condition that he will stop trying to use revolution to overcome the election result that he lost.

Dr. Greg