![]() The last straw was when he openly disagreed and dismissed the judicial panel report that he himself set up to review the aftermath which claimed scores were killed. These kids saw and noted some of Sanwo-Olu’s inconsistencies when he said he called in soldiers to maintain the peace during the #EndSARS protest, later claiming he never invited them. His road this time around is extremely complicated, especially coming at a time when the “God-father” has been trusted with a bigger and heavier national assignment. I don’t know if it is not too late at this juncture, but they needed to be appeased, else, they are lying in wait, and are intent on exacting their pound of flesh from Sanwo-Olu for his role in that #EndSARS crisis. We all know the #End SARS arrow heads, even from my dingy room six thousands kilometres away I can single them out one by one. It therefore makes this a straight duel between the OLD ORDER and the NEW ORDER, a match between the “Sōrō Soke generation” and the “Baba Sōpe generation”.Ī contest between the ‘new breeds’ as against those that are hell-bent on keeping power and the enormous privileges that accrue therefrom. These youths see Sanwo-Olu as the representative of the ‘old school’, the candidate of the establishment they want every candidate in the race to run on their own merit. There is no AUTOMATIC SHIRT anywhere, (Onika luku maa ja fun shirt ę ni). Since this is not a monarchy where only the children of the king and queen can be princes and princesses, it is a DEMOCRACY where everyone is a PRINCE. Point out that parent that wouldn’t like a childlike Gbadebo, an activist, young, handsome, well-educated, well-travelled and urbane. Any experienced politician will know this is a “dangerous” mix. Gbadebo is the youngest contender for the seat of the governor, among GRV’s backers are these up-coming musicians, skit makers, Internet influencers, a part-Nollywood artistes etc. This #EndSARS Generation is a Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour generation, he part-took in it. ‘Sōrō Soke’ is a Yoruba phrase which means ”speak louder”. They started the protest from Twitter before taking it to the streets. The 2020 #EndSARS protest was largely effective due to the use of digital technology, particularly the internet. Young men were arrested, extorted for just wearing stylish hair-cuts, young men could be detained and killed for simply carrying a fancy phone, laptops or for just driving cute cars. The protest was galvanised online with about 28 million tweets bearing the hashtag “#EndSARS” It started out as a small campaign after several videos went viral of young men and women allegedly killed by Nigeria’s Police SARS operatives, it snow-balled into a nationwide protest. The #EndSARS protest was about to run its natural course, when somebody from somewhere unleashed thugs wielding cutlasses and pick axes on them in Ikeja part of Lagos, hired thugs brandishing cutlasses against youths merely matching about in town carrying only megaphones and loud speakers.īeing the old capital and the economic hub of Nigeria, Lagos has the “misfortune’ of having an ever increasing population of youths seeking employment and better lives, the city is host to about five million-strong university and polytechnic graduates, these vibrant youths formed the nucleus of the #EndSARS Movement. At one point, the Lekki toll gate sector of the protest was almost turning into a musical jamboree that was sure to fizzle out, we all saw our youths distributing food, water and running their show seamlessly, protesting at the toll gates and returning home peacefully in the evenings. When this #EndSARS crisis erupted, Sanwo-Olu, the incumbent governor started very well, we saw him join in the protest against the police, and he believed their cause was just. This is the first election ever that we’ve all seen in Nigeria’s political history where Nigerian youths are bent on flexing their numerical strength and political muscles, the first time they woke up from their political slumber and have so far refused to go back to sleep. My neutrality stems partly from the fact that my children, if they were to reside in Nigeria, will be of the #EndSARS generation, I won’t be a father that will not wish his children to take their destinies into their own hands and make the best of it. This is another election that I shall beg to be neutral Babajide Sanwo-Olu is Eko and Ijebu son through and true, so also is Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, a bona fide son of Isale Eko.
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