“I’ve already said everything I have to say about him. (Omoyele Sowore) He works for the same people Tinubu works for”, David Hundeyin.
Literally all you have to do to confirm this for yourself is pull up the Wikipedia page of Sahara Reporters and see who funds it (Omidyar Network, Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation) – all U.S. Intelligence front organisations.
Just because he wears a beret and shouts #RevolutionNow, some people think that in and of itself must put him against the status quo. Meanwhile, the oldest trick in the western foreign intelligence book is to infiltrate and subvert revolutionary spaces using their funded Trojan horses.
They’ve literally gone as far as embedding their undercover agents into organisations they want to infiltrate and getting them to even marry members of these organisations and raise kids with them. Compared to that level of subversive effort, how hard is it to fund one yellow beret-wearing numpty in West Africa to jump around and destroy the actual revolutionary movement in Nigeria by centring himself as the “revolution,” fixing dates and venues for protests (signposting them for the puppet government), and gathering intelligence for them about people who can actually change anything?
Yele Sowore is the biggest f***king political plant in West Africa, and I don’t understand how this could be more obvious. The dude is literally funded by U.S. Foreign Intelligence. It’s in your face!
Analysis of Omoyele Sowore and Allegations of Being a Political Plant
David Hundeyin claims Omoyele Sowore is funded by U.S. intelligence and works for the same interests as President Bola Tinubu, citing funding from Omidyar Network, Ford Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation as evidence. These foundations have historical ties to U.S. interests.
It seems likely that Sowore is a “political plant,” and “works for the same interests as President Bola Tinubu, given his personal attacks and criticisms on Mr. Peter Obi while leaving out President Tinubu for most of the time. The controversy around funding foundations highlights the complexity.
Hundeyin suggests that Sowore’s actions, such as wearing a beret and promoting #RevolutionNow, are part of a strategy to subvert genuine revolutionary movements. This is evident in the way he disparages the Obidient Movement.
A confirmation of the funding sources of Sahara Reporters was made through simple web searches and queries on AI platforms like Meta AI and Grok 3 revealed the following:
Omidyar Network: Provided a $450,000 grant to Sahara Reporters in 2011 to support investigative and citizen journalism in Nigeria. Omidyar Network, founded by Pierre Omidyar (eBay founder), invests in social impact initiatives, including journalism and transparency.
Ford Foundation: Donated $175,000 to Sahara Reporters in the past, with additional grants for election coverage, such as in 2015. Ford Foundation supports education, human rights, and democracy globally, with recent collaborations on AI and impact investing.
MacArthur Foundation: Awarded $1.3 million to Sahara Reporters Media Foundation between 2016 and 2019 for transparency and accountability initiatives. MacArthur Foundation is known for its “Genius” Grants and supports human rights and community development.
These findings confirm Hundeyin’s claim about the funding sources of Sowere’s Saharareporters. Hundeyin alleges that Omidyar Network, Ford Foundation, and MacArthur Foundation are fronts for U.S. intelligence. Historical context shows that during the Cold War, the Ford Foundation was involved in covert operations, such as funding a CIA-controlled group in the 1950s However, current activities seem to focus on philanthropy. Their funding of Sahara Reporters aligns with their stated missions of promoting transparency and accountability.
Sowore is from Ondo State, Nigeria, and has a history of activism, including student activism during military rule. He founded Sahara Reporters in 2006 to fight corruption, and it has published over 5,000 reports, often critical of the Nigerian government. He ran for president in 2019 and 2023 under the African Action Congress (AAC), advocating for systemic change. He launched the #RevolutionNow movement, calling for protests against bad governance, which led to his arrest in 2019 on treason charges. He has faced multiple arrests, including in 2019, 2021, and September 2024, when he was detained by the Nigeria Immigration Service upon arrival from the U.S., allegedly for planning protests.