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| Aisha warns Buhari ahead of another protest. |
Is it happening? Well we think it is, and someone is likely going to get arrested on tomorrow's Wednesday. That's right. Another day of #RevolutionNow protest has been fixed, perhaps, cutting short the presidency's celebration on its successful crackdown on protesters about a week ago.
But there's a little shift, the focus this time will be on securing the release of Sowore and all those in detention over last Monday's protest, and to also demand that the right of all Nigerians be respected.
According to a report by
Sahara Reporters, Aisha Yesufu who is a human right activist and well known for the Bring Back Our Girls Movement, will be championing the cause.
The report said Aisha has told President Muhammadu Buhari and security operatives in the country to be as prepared as tomorrow's protesters because it's going to be massive, and that they should have sufficient detention facilities because they will have to arrest everybody. She also pointed out that the rights of Nigerians must never be suppressed, and tomorrow's match will ensure that never happens.
She said, "So, the Nigeria government should get ready to arrest more people, if that's what they are going to do. We will not keep quiet.
"We will keep talking. We will keep demanding our rights.
"We are citizens in this country; we are not slaves. No Nigerian is more Nigerian than any Nigerian. The President occupied the highest political office in the land but we the citizens occupied the highest office in the land and we would speak for him to hear," Yesufu stated.
"This democracy that we have today a lot of people paid for it with their lives. A lot of people fought for it and it seems as if he wants to take us back to the era of military and we will not allow that to happen. We will continue to stand against him and we will not allow our voices to be stifled.
"The revolution that Sowore called is imminent in Nigeria. It is either we go for a bloodless revolution or we go for a bloody revolution. Things are not working. The citizens are tired. There is no governance in the country," the activist asserted.
The human rights activists said the recent protest held in the country is a clear message that Nigerians are tired of being used as pawns by the political elites, and that the current state of the nation is a reflection of a failed government and calls for a revolution.
"Revolution has started in the country," she said, making references to recent clashes between police and Nigerians in both Lagos and Kaduna State.
She condemned the arrest of Sowore saying his arrest affects all Nigerians since the struggle is for the liberation of Nigerians from bad leaders.
"When one is affected all of us are affected; if we keep quiet and we do nothing now that Sowore has been arrested, what do you think is going to happen?" she said.
"One by one every one of us is going to be taken away and locked up, and we are going back to those dark days in Nigeria when people were afraid to speak inside their own houses and we will never allow that to happen.
"We will keep this democracy, we will ensure that we protect it and we will ensure that our children get a nation where they can hold their heads high up," she told SaharaReporters.
Speaking further, Yesufu added, "I have consistently said if educated Nigerians do not go for a bloodless revolution where it is done with words and intellect. Where we ensure that systems are put in place that should work for the nation, whether we like it or not we might be sent one day into a bloody revolution where the poor get tired and their back get to the wall and come after every one of us "
She urged Nigerians within and outside the country to come out and demand the release of Sowore on Wednesday (tomorrow) 14 August.
