Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress’s Presidential candidate, on 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.”
“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 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 pleaded with motorists, businesspeople, and well-meaning Nigerians to aid the students in their fight.
Under the auspices of the National Association of Nigerian Students, the students are protesting the protracted strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
The students held banners bearing inscriptions such as: “No nation can develop without genuine commitment to education,” and “If you have money for election form, you can fund education.”
Despite the presence of a combined team of officers from the Lagos State Police Command, Rapid Response Squad, Lagos Airport Police Command, and other security organizations, they disrupted traffic around the airport.
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