VIDEO: Sowore Addresses NANS’ Protesters, Lock Down Lagos Airport

By Oladosu Oluwagbenga 

Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’s presidential hopeful, Monday joined Nigerian students in a demonstration at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.

At the rally, Sowore urged the students to further up their protest by declaring that “this is your struggle.”

Sowore was applauded by the students, who appeared pleased to see him at their demonstration.

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“I am a comrade and I remain a comrade forever, anything you need from us, let us know, but this is your struggle.

“Nigerian students delivered independence to Nigeria in 1960, after this, they hijacked it and started using it against us. Nigerian students delivered the democracy we have today in in 1999, but when they flog people, it is the same us that they flog,” Sowore said.

He urge motorists, businesspeople, and well-meaning Nigerians to aid the students in their fight.

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The National Association of Nigerian Students, which represents the students, is opposing the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ protracted strike action.

No nation can progress without a sincere dedication to education, the students’ banners read, and “If you have money for an election form, you can support education.”

In the midst of a combined team of officers from the Lagos State Police Command, Rapid Response Squad, Lagos Airport Police Command, and other security agencies, they caused traffic around the airport.

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