The 2023 Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has warned that the growing frustration among Nigerians could transform the #TinubuMustGo campaign into another mass uprising like #EndSARS if urgent reforms are not made.

#EndSARS, was a decentralized social movement and series of mass protests against police brutality in Nigeria that mainly occurred in 2020.

The protests originated from a Twitter campaign in 2017, using the hashtag #EndSARS to demand the unit’s disbandment by the Nigerian government.

The movement experienced a resurgence in October 2020 following further revelations of the unit’s abuses, leading to mass demonstrations across major cities in Nigeria, and widespread outrage on social media platforms.

Speaking exclusively on Frontline, a current affairs programme on Eagle 102.5 FM Ilese-Ijebu, on Thursday, 1st May 2025, Sowore accused President Bola Tinubu’s administration of failing in every critical sector, including the economy, security, education, and healthcare. “This administration is heading into its second year, and it is a second year of failure,” he declared.

“By May 29^th, President Tinubu will be celebrating his second of failure in office, is the appropriate way to describe him. Failure in economy, delivering of security, failure in providing infrastructure, food security, water and living wage of workers, Today is May Day, Workers Day yet there’s no happy worker.”

While distancing the possibilities of a hijack and lost of lives like the October 20, 2020 Lekki Toll Gate Massacre and the outcome of similar demonstrations like the Kenya’s #RUTOMUSTGO, Sowore said the goal is to effect change without violence, calling on well-meaning Nigerians to join the cause against bad Governance.

Sowore criticized the concept of political rascality, a term often weaponised by the political elite to describe his approach and his Revolution Now Movement.

In his defense, Sowore said “Political rascals are the ones who carry out political assassinations and engage in deplorable activities,” he said. “We are not rascals. Some politicians lash out and call us rascals only when they are angry and when we do not let them drain this country. Referring to people who are trying to fix the country as rascals, to me, is just a misguided thought”.

He lamented the daily struggles of ordinary Nigerians, especially the youth, describing the current leadership as disconnected from the reality of the people. According to him, the masses are being pushed to the edge with no meaningful relief in sight.
In the meantime, The Revolution Now Movement leader described the ongoing political realignments and calls for coalition ahead of the 2027 general elections as dull and self-centered.

Political parties are supposed to unite like-minded people. Ironically, those now calling for coalition are the same ones who rejected it during the last election. They’ve weakened themselves”.

He stated that political coalitions in Nigeria are often “vehicles created to carry the next set of thieves to win the national treasury,” rather than instruments of ideological unity.

His comment comes following the gale of defections sweeping through the ranks and strongholds of the opposition parties, Peoples Democratic Party, Labour Party, New Nigeria Peoples Party including some members of the ruling All Progressive Congress.