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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nAs far as I am concerned, the #EndSARS protests were a leadership test for General Buhari, and he failed. He hid away in Aso Rock. The quota-system General in him came out. No brain. Just brawn. No strategy. Just tragedy. No negotiation skills. Just intentional kills. What a bully. Take away his gun, and he is gone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nigeria deserves better than Muhammadu Buhari. Never, never, never again, shall the worst of us rule the rest of us. Never again must a man who can\u2019t lead his self and his own home be in charge of providing leadership to the nation. A financially bankrupt leader is better than an intellectual bankrupt one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Message From Reno Omokri to The #EndSARS Movement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the American Civil Right Movement, the great Martin Luther King Jr once said \u201cIn spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Nigerian movement is on a different continent fighting a different form of injustice, but the principle remains. To achieve lasting change, lasting peace, lasting justice for all, we cannot resort to acts of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Letting our movement boil over into violence will sink ourselves to the same corrupt values and shortsighted vision as this government. It would also be a tremendous strategic mistake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In an exchange of violence, our fists and torches will never compete with the might of our government\u2019s tanks and guns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we have something far more powerful: a growing, popular movement that will not rest until we have justice. We can sit out their threats. We can stay in the streets. We can boycott those who do not stand for justice. We can extend this march from the streets of Abuja to the feeds of Facebook and Twitter. We can win the hearts and minds of leaders, journalists, organizers, and students. We can register more voters, and show up in numbers never seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That is a war we can win. It may take longer than we want. It will require patience and discipline. But we will prevail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let me be clear: the government wants our movement to turn to violence. They can beat us at that game. They can take that opening to bring in the tanks. To quell what we have built. To justify their excessive force and free-wielding expression of it. They want to not only defeat us in the streets now but to delegitimize what we stand for when they do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Non-violence is how we stop that outcome. It is how we achieve justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know this is hard. I know how angry you are because I am angry too. But let\u2019s stay united. Stay focused. And win this through the right \u2014 but hard \u2014 means of non-violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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