The Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 presidential election, Omoyele Sowore, said on Friday that the Nigerian authorities have continued to detain one of the leaders of the #EndBadGovernanceInNigeria protest, Michael Adaramoye, popularly called “Michael Lenin” simply because of his nickname.
Mr Adaramoye’s nickname, Lenin, is the last name of a Russian revolutionary, Vladimir Lenin, who served as the founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924.
“The Nigerian Govt is still detaining Michael Adaramoye, aka “Lenin”, because they said his nickname “Lenin” shows that he was the person behind the Russian flags distribution in the north during the ongoing,” Mr Sowore, founder of the Take It Back Movement, another group taking part in the protest, posted on X.
