The activist and politician, Omoyele Sowore, has warned of a revolution starting from 1 October.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress says the protest will be “stronger, better, and bigger."
“The protest will continue until we see the back of bad governance in the country,” he told Nigeria Info on the Morning Crossfire show on Monday, two days after the End Bad Governance in Nigeria demonstrations ended.
Sowore admitted that the 1 to 10 August did not have the expected impact, but said progress was made.
“It did stand those in power up for 10 days. The president of Nigeria did nothing else but attend to speaking to the issues of the protest.
“The security agencies did nothing else and our people were made aware of the reasons bad governance has to end.”
Sowore believes the concluded protests sparked a strong spirit of unity and combat against a common enemy, despite religious differences and religious interference. That enemy is bad governance.
“We never thought that it could go as far as it went, that there will be a seismic event that will shake Nigeria the way it shook Nigeria,” Sowore said.
“And now we are getting even more people interested in this (protest). I saw a group of elders travel to AsoRock to say, ‘Now it’s time to talk about a new constitution.’
“The government on his part came and started making all kinds of effort, grants were made available.
“It was in the middle of this protest that they released the first batch of loans to students which we have advised should be grants.”
Sowore downplayed the likelihood of dialogue with the government, saying the only appeasement would be leaders dropping corruption.
