Human rights activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, on Monday, June 12, 2023, visited the family house of late Chief MKO Abiola, in Lagos State, where he reinstated his determination to enthrone revolutionary democracy in Nigeria. Sowore and the leading women of the AAC, his party, embarked on the visit to Abiola’s house where they reinstated their desire to bring about a revolutionary democratic era that would provide Nigerians with total liberation.
June 12, 2023
Sowore and the leading women of the AAC, his party, embarked on the visit to Abiola’s house where they reinstated their desire to bring about a revolutionary democratic era that would provide Nigerians with total liberation. During the visit to Abiola’s residence, Sowore, also the convener of #RevolutionNow alongside the AAC leading women and multitude of supporters reassured Abiola’s family of their resolve to achieve the ideal, anti-oppressive system which the late democrat fought for till death.
SaharaReporters earlier reported in a flashback that Sowore in 1993, as the President of the University of Lagos Student Union Government , at a press conference in Lagos tackled Babangida and the military junta he led to immediately release the remaining results of the “watershed” June 12, 1993 presidential election which was adjudged the best democratic election in Nigeria.
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