Former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, says he will not be held down by the death of his younger brother, Olajide Sowore.
Gatekeepers News reports that Sowore stated this in a Facebook post on Thursday night hours after the burial of Olajide in the Kiribo area of Ondo State.
He added that his brother will not die in vain
“My brother Olajide Sowore will never die in vain, thank you Nigeria! Though I am shackled, I am not in chains, I refuse to be held down! #RevolutionNow,” the elder Sowore wrote.
Olajide was laid to rest in the presence of his wife, four kids, family members, friends, and associates.
The elder Sowore, in a Facebook post, also shared photos of the burial with the caption, “My kid brother Olajide Sowore who was brutally murdered by yet-to-be-identified gunmen reportedly referred to as herdsmen/kidnappers on Ore-Benin Road was finally laid to rest today at Kiribo!”
He described his brother as “an out-of-the-box thinker” who decided to go back to school when he was about clocking 50.
The deceased was a Pharmacy student at the Igbinedion University in the Okada area of Edo State. He was returning from school when he was shot dead by suspected herdsmen around 6 am on Saturday along the Lagos-Benin Expressway.
A woman, Emmanuella Anyanwu, who escaped from the hoodlums who killed the late Olajide had also said the gunmen demanded a ransom of N10m shortly before she escaped from the camp where she was kept with four others.
Anyanwu had also identified them as herdsmen, saying, “I believe they are Fulani because on that Saturday afternoon, they released their cows and came to where we were being held.
“I saw a mast far away and I started trekking towards it. After one hour or more, I got to a road and saw an elderly man on a motorcycle. I asked him to take me to a police station, which he did.”
