Omoyele Sowore is currently in court for calling President Bola Ahmed Tinubu a criminal.
I am aware that emotions across Nigeria are charged.
People are angry at the state of the country.
Omoyele Sowore is a Nigerian who has the right to react to adverse realities anywhere they occur or sustain in Nigeria.
Sowore called President Tinubu a criminal. And he says he is not willing to retract his words.
I say Omoyele Sowore needs to acknowledge the difference between Bola Ahmed Tinubu and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for knocking Sowore out as one of the contestants at the last Presidential Elections in which The INEC, the body approved by the law, declared The APC Presidential Candidate as the President elect of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. This was later confirmed by Supreme Court the highest court of the land.
Bola Ahmed Tinubu became President Bola Ahmed Tinubu after he got sworn-in to exist and function as the Prime Citizen of Nigeria
Mr. President is the statutory custodian of all the powers temporal that determine the existence of the Republic.
So long as Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains President of Nigeria, the office he occupies transcends whatever facts of his past and personality that either angers or excites whoever, however!
I am talking about respecting the office of the President of Nigeria, not about making a deity of whoever occupies it.
The office and the person occupying the office are statutorily and functionally one - non separated.
If Sowore has any bile to visit on President Tinubu for whatever reason, he should wait for Bola Tinubu's reign as President of Nigeria to expire, after which the latter becomes a regular citizen.
I am not putting a gag on the voice of any Nigerian who feels aggrieved by Mr. President's decision, precedence and/or antecedents
I am simply saying that people should mind the choice of words and labels they use to address whoever is Nigeria's Mr. President
You can call someone a rogue or stupid without using the word Rogue or Stupid on him or her.
It is neither African to disrespect authority nor is it acceptable in Africa to condone negativity.
As Africans, we have our deep cultural and traditional ways of cutting the head of a python without plunging the community into chaos, without denigrating or polluting its existence
We are Africans, not Europeans!
In this wise, I call on Omoyele Sowore to apologize to Mr. President for calling him a criminal, most particularly in the pertinent interest of respect for the office of President of the Federal Republic!
By calling President Tinubu, the current custodian of the enabling temporal powers of the Nigerian existence, a criminal, Omoyele Sowore has basically splashed 'excreta' on the collective body of the Nigerian existence.
In succinct terms, by calling the President of Nigeria a criminal, Sowore is, by implication, calling all Nigerians criminals.
Omoyele Sowore is free to call Bola Ahmed Tinubu any name he chooses after the latter's tenure as President of Nigeria expires. For now I issue him a Red Card!!
I seek to have the case in court as tabled by the DSS withdrawn, but on the basis of Sowore tendering an apology to Nigerians, otherwise he should be treated as a criminal, rebel or terrorist until he is able to prove his claim, before it is too late.
Long Live The Federal Republic Of Nigeria.
My Divine Love and Blessings.