I started noticing the protests were more about APC in 2023 than police reforms mid last week when i attended the protests. At that point, I began questioning my own participation. I started knowing I was in the wrong place fighting a good cause with strange bedfellows like this. https://twitter.com/ayosogunro/status/1319513916297232384">https://twitter.com/ayosogunr...

Because I& #39;ve always participated in protests for policy reforms, I initially felt it& #39;s a good idea lending my voice against police brutality. I have previously published two articles on protests in some journals. I genuinely felt could get live data for a study of protests.

Everyday on the protest grounds, I met idiots like Ayo who can& #39;t coherently articulate anything they wanted other than insulting Buhari and APC leaders. Most of the time, the speakers sounded like PDP campaign spokespersons. I felt since APC was in power, that& #39;s "normal".

Nobody had solutions to the police reforms they& #39;re talking about. Someone said if Buhari was serious, he should sack the entire Police Force and recruit "educated youths". I& #39;m like how and where& #39;s that in the world? It& #39;s about attacking Buhari and more attacks without solutions.

I dawned on me by Thursday that a few sincere, non-partisan protesters where just there to the number. I felt too ashamed to tell anyone. I was already involved. My pictures were out. To cover for my shame, I started catching cruise. They& #39;re not about police reforms.

I sincerely have no problems whatsoever with using protests to raise political consciousness. I& #39;ve written about that in my article THE PROTESTS AGAINST NEO-LIBERAL REFORMS IN NIGERIA: THE CASE OF OCCUPY NIGERIA. But my issue is, even if that& #39;s your aim, at least, be articulate.

In 2018, I wrote REPRESSION OF THE NEO-BIAFRA MOVEMENT: MEASURES, RESPONSES AND CONSEQUENCES on the resilience of IPOB and others in the face of Python Dance. I understand what social movements are like. Like Ayo said, it& #39;s all about their hatred for APC, not police brutality.