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Sowore Does Not Have To Win - Bamidele Ademola-Olateju

The disaffection index in the Southwest is high, all Sowore needs to do is to chip away at the youth vote and the dream of winning Southwest for Buhari goes up in flames!

Sowore does not have to win, he only needs to disrupt the political process. Nigeria is neck deep in a mess. We need a disruptive mindset to change it. What we have in short supply in Nigeria is something fundamental about the world - the habit of challenging established orthodoxy.

No one has done something meaningful in the whole wide world without creating distruption. Leaders who shaped our world, did, only because they willingly challenged the powers and processes of their time, most often at great personal cost and risk.

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In the case of this administration, every state Buhari won by 10-15% of the vote should be considered lost, unless something fundamental happens in the next few months. Going by their antecedents and the very nature of hubris, we must not expect it. The disaffection index in the Southwest is high, all Sowore needs to do is to chip away at the youth vote and the dream of winning Southwest for Buhari goes up in flames!

The Southeast and Southsouth will be shared between PDP and SDP as Ibori shepherds Deltans to SDP. I see the emergence of youth candidates as hunger for real and lasting change in governance. 2019 will be the road to the discovery of the hitherto unknown.

Whether he can win or not, one thing is clear. Sowore is not motivating the youth, he is motivacting them. That is TRUE CHANGE and it is commendable!

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