Human rights activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore has defiantly declared that he will campaign freely across Nigeria, dismissing threats by Yoruba activist Sunday Igboho against opposition figures holding rallies in the Southwest.
Speaking on Symfoni TV, Sowore insisted that he cannot be intimidated. “I will go anywhere in Nigeria to campaign, and I want to see him try to stop me. I am sure he will never try. Some of this is also psychological — they use these figures to intimidate you, so that you will not stand up to vote in 2027,” he said.
Sowore was equally dismissive of Igboho’s brand of politics. “I don’t know him too well, but I have always said that his brand of politics is what they call amala politics in Oyo State: it is chop-chop politics, it is the politics that in the Southeast they used to call ‘rub my back, I rub your back,'” he said.
Sowore went further, placing Igboho in the same category as political figures he said history has already forgotten and disgraced. He compared him to Arthur Nzeribe, who once vowed to die if Babangida did not become president, and Daniel Kanu, who made a similar pledge for Abacha — both men whose careers collapsed alongside the regimes they served.
