24/06/2026
“The travails of Sowore…exposes the limitations of the law. The justice system in an unjust class system cannot but be a system of systematic injustice. It is a system that primarily serves the interests of the state to repress radical alternative voices that speak truth to power and demand a new, better system for a liberatory society.”
“Sowore cannot be cowered no matter what they do. AAC and its teeming members will not be deterred…Onward forward until victory!”
“Sowore has been a thorn in the flesh of different sections of the ruling class at the time that they wielded state power, since the return to civil rule in 1999. He pioneered radical civic journalism as publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online outlet that has recorded several breaking news exposés over the last twenty years. It is however instructive that the barrage of lawfare and repressive measures commenced with the building of the African Action Congress (AAC) as a revolutionary party with a critical mass.
AAC was formed in 2018 and participated in the 2019 general elections. The party has been unabashed in stating its intent: deepening radical struggle with of the masses for total liberation and building a better society where the people and the planet come first and last, instead of the billionaires and vagabonds in power that exploit and rule over us today.
It has been very clear that participating in elections is a necessary but insufficient part of this struggle. Street protests, support for workers strikes, defence of communities devastated by pollution, standing up to resist demolition of working-class quarters, and mobilising rebellion in the face of police brutality have all been repertoires of the party’s extra-parliamentary revolutionary politics.
AAC has emerged as the first revolutionary mass party in Nigeria, with a membership in the tens of thousands, and which has also successfully maintained a capacity to initiate or provide organic radical leadership to mass street struggles on the ground for almost a decade, and participate in three electoral cycles thus far.
This is what the state fears. That is why it has sustained a salvo of repressive measures against Sowore since 2019.”
Read the full article on the SWL website
The arrest of Omoyele Sowore on Monday, 22 June underscores the highhandedness of Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court, Abuja, who had unjustly revoked Sowore’s bail a week earlier. But it also does more than that; it is yet another demonstration of the draconian nature of the Nig...
