21/09/2025
OMOYELE SOWORE: A THIEF AND SCAMMER MASQUERADING AS AN ACTIVIST
By Port Harcourt Force
It has become increasingly shameful to watch Omoyele Sowore, a self-styled activist and failed presidential candidate, drag the name of Nigeria’s most accomplished leaders in the mud all in the name of cheap popularity. His latest target is the Honourable Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Chief (Barr.) Nyesom Ezenwo Wike – a man whose only “crime” is standing tall to say it is wrong and reckless for anyone to call a sitting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria a criminal.
But rather than reason with logic, Sowore descended into the gutter, hurling unprintable names at Wike — a man who has not only transformed Rivers State but has become the pride of Nigeria in the FCT. Sowore’s outbursts are not born out of courage, but of frustration, envy, and a desperate attempt to revive his dead-on-arrival presidential ambition.
Sowore has long exposed himself as nothing but a “belle activist” and a “human rice and beans cashtivist.” He thrives on stirring controversy to attract donor funding from unsuspecting Nigerians and foreign organizations. Between 2016 and 2019 alone, he pocketed a staggering $1.3 million (about ₦1.9 billion today) from the MacArthur Foundation, allegedly to train journalists. Till today, not a single verifiable training was conducted. Where did the money go? Into Sowore’s belly and pocket, of course.
Worse still, in 2018, GoFundMe suspended his fundraising campaign to raise $2 million (over ₦3 billion today) after discovering it was a scam. This is the man who wants Nigerians to see him as an activist. A scammer in activist’s clothing.
Sowore’s hypocrisy stinks. In 2019, he allegedly collected $3 million to sell his party’s governorship ticket in Rivers State. That singular act led to political violence and bloodshed that claimed innocent lives — yet Sowore kept mute. This same man, who has defrauded his own party members and donors, has the audacity to call others criminals?
Even in his personal life, he has been enmeshed in scandal. Nigerians still remember the unverified tale he concocted about being injected with lethal substances at UNILAG. Lies, lies, and more lies — that is the foundation of Sowore’s so-called activism.
Sowore claimed he filed a case against Wike in Florida concerning properties allegedly linked to the Minister. Till today, no court documents, no proof, nothing. Nigerians are not gullible. Sowore should stop entertaining his few blind followers and present evidence — or forever be known as the fraudster he is.
And since he loves to shout about “criminals,” he must also be challenged to show Nigerians the judgment where President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was convicted. Until then, he remains a loudmouth living off lies, propaganda, and donor funds.
Unlike Sowore who has built nothing but scams, Wike has an undeniable track record. He turned Rivers State into a modern city and now, as FCT Minister, is replicating his developmental strides for the benefit of the entire nation. He is a man of action, a round peg in a round hole.
Sowore, on the other hand, is a thief, a ra**st, a scammer, and a failed politician masquerading as an activist. He is not fighting for Nigeria; he is fighting for his pocket. He is not seeking justice; he is seeking relevance. And he is not telling the truth; he is selling lies to the gullible.
History will remember Wike as a builder. Sowore will be remembered as nothing more than a hungry rice activist who scammed his way through life, deceiving the same people he claimed to fight for.
People keep shouting Democracy! Democracy! yet they fail to see the biggest contradiction standing right before them — Omoyele Sowore. He parades himself as a lover of democracy, yet in his own party, the African Action Congress (AAC), he is everything rolled into one: the Party Chairman, the Presidential Candidate, the sole decision-maker, the unquestioned authority. That is not democracy; that is Dictatorship in MilliTocracy.
Sowore is no democrat. He is a one-man party, a one-man candidate, and a one-man judge in his own kangaroo politics. He is a hypocrite who thrives on double standards. And that is why Nigerians must not be deceived by his theatrics.
