Activist politician, Omoyele Sowore has explained why he refused to join the Occupy INEC protest by chieftains of the African Democratic Congress, ADC.

Sowore explained that his protest is based on principles unlike former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who would return to Dubai where he resides permanently after the elections.

ADC chieftains like Atiku, David Mark, Rauf Aregbesola, Peter Obi, Rotimi Amaechi, Rabiu Kwankwaso had embarked on a protest at INEC’s headquarters in Abuja over the delisting of their faction.

However, Sowore, while addressing journalists in Abuja after the protest said: “I support any form of protest against any form of irregularities, this is what we have been doing and saying that you can’t get the results we want without protest.

“They used to mock us that activists can’t be good leaders but now the people want to become activists first so that people can trust them because they know that those trusted are genuine activists.

“Some of the problems we have now, they are the ones who created when they had the opportunity. We were having a conversation inside the prison and they said the former Minister of Interior Affairs, Rauf Aregbesola, didn’t promote them for nine years and these are the people protesting now.

“I support them and I shared my fliers on my Facebook page that people should join them and we sent people to join them.

“I’m not in opposition for opposition’s sake, I’m opposed to everything wrong in Nigeria, including what the opposition people were doing when they were not in opposition.

“Mine is a principled opposition, their own is opposition for election, and the moment the election is over, Atiku will go back to Dubai, which is where he stays permanently and you won’t see them again.”