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Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has criticised the National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ajibola Basiru, over comments directed at him.

Sowore alleged that he assisted Basiru in securing admission to the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after he was expelled from the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN).

He made the claim in a response published on X on Thursday, following Basiru’s description of him as a skit maker and comedian during an appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Wednesday.

To support his account, Sowore shared a photograph of himself with Basiru taken in 1998, when he was leading the Congress of Progressive Youths (COPY) in the campaign against military dictatorship.

According to Sowore, Basiru joined the University of Lagos after his expulsion from the University of Ilorin in 1992 over student activism.

“I received him alongside Kunle Adegoke, popularly known as K-Rad, who is now a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. We provided them with an enabling environment to apply to re-enter the university, gain admission, and study Law at the University of Lagos,” Sowore said.

He added that both men eventually completed their studies with excellent results.

Sowore also challenged Basiru’s argument that opponents of President Bola Tinubu should be ashamed of losing the 2023 presidential election because the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Tinubu the winner.

The AAC presidential candidate maintained that the pursuit of justice, democracy and freedom should not be dismissed as entertainment.

“The struggle for justice, democracy, freedom and the preservation of human dignity is neither skit-making nor comedy. Ajibola knows this because he was once part of that struggle and benefited from the solidarity of those who refused to surrender to military tyranny,” he said.

The human rights activist further argued that political appointments do not last forever, insisting that Tinubu’s administration would eventually leave office, just as the military governments they opposed during their younger years did.

“What is truly comical is watching yesterday’s beneficiaries of resistance become today’s defenders of the very oppression they once fought against,” he added.

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