If you say Omoyele Sowore is a liar, *I will agree.* He tells deliberate lies *to destroy the reputation of those he's against,* using his _Sahara Reporters_ website. He did it to me personally *and my boss, Jonathan.* Ironically neither Jonathan, nor I ever contemplated his arrest.
I sympathise with Sowore, *but that's not my point here.* I can't help but feel that his travails are self inflicted. I know his nature. He will come out of jail, read this, *and use Sahara Reporters to try to savage my reputation.* If you have followed the Buhari wave, you know the role Sowore and his Sahara Reporters played *to create the Frankenstein monster named Buhari.*
What is happening between Sowore and Buhari is just a romance gone sour. Sowore is *not some innocent activist* that General Buhari is persecuting. He was an ally of Buhari. *He sold Buhari to Nigeria.* _We must not rewrite history or we will repeat it._
*Using saharareporters,* Sowore dishonestly *"DEMARKETED"* President Jonathan as *a "DRUNKARD,"* _a "SLOW POKE,_" *"CLUELESS..."* and MARKETED Buhari as *"INCORRUPTIBLE."* He marketed Buhari as a man who would not only *"CRUSH"* Jonathan, but the *"messiah"* who would "SOLVE" all of Nigeria's problems.
In 2014, when Jonathan said "I am the most INSULTED president in the world but when I leave office, you will all remember me for the total freedom you enjoyed", *he was referring to Sowore and saharareporters.*
_Nigerians mistook his TOLERANCE AND *ZEAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS* for WEAKNESS._
Today, General Buhari is trying Sowore, *his former partner in propaganda,* for insulting him. If insulting a President is a crime, *both Buhari and Sowore are guilty due to what they did to ex-President Jonathan.* But it is NOT a crime.
*Sowore should be freed!*
Yet, Sowore is not the victim here. The victim, who refused to be a victim, *is former President Jonathan,* who Sowore accused of thievery, *yet ALL his children schooled in Nigeria while he was President.* 5 years after leaving office, no one has found GEJ wanting.
It is possible that *people around Jonathan made money,* just as people around General Buhari are making money and people around Obasanjo and YarAdua made money. _It is the sad reality of a corruption plagued country that we must all aspire to fix._ *But Jonathan was NOT the THIEF, DRUNKARD or WEAKLING* Sowore painted him to be. He is God fearing. *To fear God is weakness to men like Sowore.*
Then President Jonathan is MEEK. MEEKNESS is not WEAKNESS. MEEKNESS means you have POWER, *but you RESTRAIN yourself from ABUSING it* because *you want to BUILD, not DESTROY.* Moses was MEEK. Nigerians don't deserve a MEEK leader. *We deserve a General Buhari!*
On 4 occasions, Sowore visited Nigeria while Jonathan was President. We knew his whereabouts. He met then CBN Governor, Lamido Sanusi, and was in contact with Buhari and El-rufai. *But Jonathan NEVER ARRESTED him* because _he believed in PRESS FREEDOM._
Sowore marketed Jonathan as corrupt and weak. *GEJ would never make a man indicted by the army for theft, as reported by PremiumTimesng, a minister.* GEJ deported South Africans in retaliation when SA deported Nigerians. It is Buhari who is WEAK & CORRUPT.
The problem with the average Nigerian, is that *we CRY over CONSEQUENCES,* and _LAUGH over ACTIONS,_ not realising that _CONSEQUENCE follows ACTIONS_ *as DAY follows NIGHT.* Sowore and Saharareporters are the ACTION. *Buhari is the CONSEQUENCE.*
I look at those shedding tears for Sowore and I remember when Jonathan's son was crying after his classmates laughed at him *because they read on saharareporters that his father is a drunkard.* Even children believe the lies they read on saharareporters!
I am not stretching facts if I say that *without Sowore, General Buhari wont be President.* It's an indisputable FACT. He and Saharareporters poisoned the mind of Nigerians against then President Jonathan. As Christ said "offences will come: *but woe unto him, through whom they come!"* - Luke 17:1
It is a different matter if Sowore and saharareporters used the TRUTH to turn Nigerians against then President Jonathan, *but they used LIES.* Deliberate and malignant LIES. *You cannot DESTROY another man and expect Providence to BUILD you up!*
_Ko le work!_
What Gen Buhari has done to Sowore is a common Northern tactic. I lived in the North. I know. Abacha used it on Abiola. He used Abiola to destroy Shonekan. *After Abiola destroyed Shonekan's government,* he was of no use to Abacha anymore, so Abacha threw him in jail.
General Buhari and Elrufai know what they used Sowore to achieve in destroying Jonathan. They are not fools. These guys are more politically sophisticated *than even Sowore/Tinubu know.* It is brinksmanship. *They won't sit and watch them do the same to Buhari.*
All of you were FOOLED when General Buhari rubbed mentholatum on his handkerchief and used it to induce crocodile tears. You are now seeing the genuine Buhari now? *Who is crying now?* _Buhari or you? When we told you did you listen?_ Enjoy Buhari!
Gen Buhari used Sowore & saharareporters against Jonathan and he will NEVER let them be used against him. *Sowore should have known that the first person a feudal king kills is the kingmaker* that got him the throne. So he can't remove him from the same throne.
What an irony! Sowore cannot use the same saharareporters to remove himself from jail.
Don't dig your enemy's hole too deep so that when you fall into it, you can also escape.
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Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects
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