Omoyele Sowore, a renown activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress both in 2019 and 2023 general elections has revealed how his birth date was recorded in 1971 by his maternal grandfather.
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While many of our leaders and political officeholders either doctored their age or declear that their birth dates are known, Sowore publihed the raw data as was written by his maternal grandfather Pa John Olawoye.
Sowore wrote on his FB page !!!
This was how Omoele Sowore mum’s dad (my grandfather on the maternal side) recorded my birth in Yoruba Language back in 1971. He was a brilliant and handsome guy with nice handwriting, unfortunately he passed on not too long after I was born. His name was and still remains, John Olawoye!
YORUBA: Kehinde bí ọmọ ọkùnrin ní 16 February 1971, malon fi ẹsẹ ọmọ nà tẹ́lẹ̀ ni 6 April 1971. Orúkọ ọmọ ni Johnson Ọmọyẹle Soworẹ, àti Omolaso, orúkọ tí bàbá ìyá rẹ pé ọmọ nà nìyẹn. Mr John Olawọye.
Owo isọmọ lórúkọ jẹ́ poun kan sílè mẹ́jọ ati kọ̀bọ̀ (£1.88 Shillings 1 Kobo)
ENGLISH: Kehinde gave birth to a male child on February 16th, 1971. He was christened on April the 6th, 1971. The child's name is Johnson Omoyele Sowore, also known as Omolaso, a name given to him by his maternal grandfather, John Olawoye. The naming fee was one pound, eight shillings, and one kobo.
Translated by Daramola Victor
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