Thread by @DavidHundeyin

I'm really tired of seeing this take.

A once-in-generation 2-week protest movement whose premise fortuitously motivated universal support, is completely different to building a political structure that ensures you have party agents in Abonema and Tundun-Wada on election day.

https://twitter.com/MuyiwaSaka/status/1483328713974554627

They have absolutely nothing in common. It's like comparing a 20-ft rope with a 20-ft snake. The form is vaguely similar, but the operational realities are worlds apart.

In terms of numbers, @SavvyRinu's total social media audience is only like 40% of Alimosho LGA alone.

N500m is a drop in the bucket. Except you're using it to campaign for HoA seats, and even then there are no guarantees.

I know a diasporan from Rivers State who came back to contest for a senatorial seat in 2019, and spent her own N100m.

She didn't get past the primaries.

I think the reason people constantly draw this false inference is because of how #OccupyNigeria was coopted in what later became APC.

What they fail to understand is that Occupy Nigeria itself was sponsored and catalysed by politicians who already had an agenda that became APC.

EndSARS was not bankrolled or helped along by any politician. It was an organic protest movement - possibly the first of its kind in post colonial Nigerian history, which is why Buhari was so terrified of it.

It was nothing like Occupy Nigeria both in conception and outcome.