THE REASON I DO NOT ACCEPT AWARDS – SOWORE

In an interview conducted by a group of Journalists, the AAC presidential candidate for the 2023 general election, Omoyele Sowore explained why he refuses awards. Sowore answered: It is a principled decision I took a long time ago. You can never search anywhere and hear that I have applied for an award or that I’ve been given an award. Maybe one day I would change my mind, but it is a position I took because of the ways they bastardized awards.

Awards have become so bastardized these days that people just give awards for the sake of awards without even thinking twice about the awards they just go and print a plaque that’s why I don’t accept awards as a rule. I don’t believe in awards, I don’t believe that you need to be awarded for doing what is good!!

I don’t believe in statutory rewards or anticipated rewards, I don’t believe that there’s a reward for anybody after they die. I just want to do what is right here and leave and whatever happens after is the end.  I don’t accept awards as a rule.