By Boluwatife Adedokun
The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore has joined Nigerian Students in the Lagos Airport protest currently going on.
In the protest, the presidential candidate noted that it is very important for the students to intensify their actions, noting that “this is your struggle.”
The students who couldn’t hold their joy seeing the candidate applauded him and gave him a chance to communicate with them.
Sowore in his words said “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 this, 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 pleaded with drivers, traders and good Nigerians to support the students’ struggle.
Nigerian Students are protesting against the prolonged strike embarked over 7 months now by the Academic Staff Union of Universities.
While protesting, the students are holding a banner with the inscriptions such as: “No nation can develop without genuine commitment to education,” and “If you have money for election form, you can fund education.”
There are traffic around the airport caused by the students, and the officers of Lagos State Police Command, along other security agencies.
