{"id":194926,"date":"2026-02-14T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/why-i-cant-stand-obasanjo-sowore"},"modified":"2026-02-14T12:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:22:02","slug":"why-i-cant-stand-obasanjo-sowore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/why-i-cant-stand-obasanjo-sowore","title":{"rendered":"Why I can\u2019t stand Obasanjo \u2013 Sowore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has stated why he cannot stand former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to questions in an interview on an X programme, \u2018Nix: Outside the Box\u2019, Sowore said he could not stand the former President because it was during his administration that he went to the university, a period he said the education system began to dwindle.<\/p>\n<p>Obasanjo, a former military Head of State, also served as civilian President from 1999 to 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have never been to Aso Rock before. I have never met any President in power before, not even Obasanjo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObasanjo is probably one of the people I can\u2019t even stand because of what we knew about him before we went to the university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPart of the reasons we were rushing to the university was that Ali must go, and it was Obasanjo period. It was from that period that he started destroying the education system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo come back to the nature of power, I don\u2019t even know how his face looks,\u201d Sowore said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Human rights activist Omoyele Sowore has stated why he cannot stand former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo. 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