Nigerians have faulted a claim by human rights lawyer, Deji Adeyanju that he started the #EndSARS protest in 2020 alongside the founder of #RevolutionNow Movement, Omoyele Sowore.
Adeyanju was responding to Chief Bisi Akande, former national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) who claimed that the #EndSARS protest was orchestrated by Obidients to stop the presidential ambition of President Bola Tinubu.
According to Akande, a former governor of Osun state “The Obidients were behind the #EndSARS. It was manufactured in America and brought in just to stop him (Tinubu). I said the Obidients, I didn’t say Obi”.
However in a post on his Facebook page, Adeyanju wrote “Sowore and i started #EndSARS in 2020 and we are not obidients. Baba Akande is lying”.Baba Akande lied for saying obidients started #EndSARS. We will not allow him re-write history before our very eyes. We started #EndSARS and we are not obidients”.
Commenting on Adeyanju’s post, Peter Izuagie Eshemokhai wrote “Deji and the likes of Sowore are opportunists, they really don’t have the interest of the country at heart.. They are cashing out seriously with half truth and half lies”.
Adeola Ikumapayi wrote “Abi you dey mend? Endsars started where? Were you in Lagos not to talk of starting it? What should Sega now say? The truth is, Endsars was funded by obidiots Baba Akande was talking about, but he may not get who started it right. However, it wasn’t started by you nor Sowore”.
Emmanuel Adebayo wrote “Segelinks started it and not You and Sowore, Omoyele Soowore was booed in Lekki Toll Gate i still remember so stop all this lies abeg”.
Yusuf Sarafadeen wrote” You didn’t start it. You only joined them. Even there is a video where those guys were chasing Sowore away from joining them”.
Also reacting to Adeyanju’s claim, Kayode Oguntuase wrote “Deji, your post is so disrespectful. A true Yoruba man cannot describe Baba Akande, who is old enough to be your father, as a liar.
That is not the standard of Omoluabi.
Yorubas are not like others. We don’t disrespect people, especially elderly ones.
Please you need to apologise to the old man’.
