English: A couple of weeks after the 2019 presidential elections, I met Omoyele Sowore at the Sahara Reporters' Civic Media Lab and after we exchanged pleasantries in his usual 'hey professor' way, he told me in a sombre tone how travelling across Nigeria during his one year intensive campaigns had made him (upon his brief return to the United States) value things he had hitherto taken for granted having been practically away for twenty years.
Igbo: Ka izu ụka ole na ole gachara ka e mesiri ntụli aka onyeisi ala na 2019, ezutere m Omoyele Sowore na 'Sahara Reporters' Civic Media Lab,' ka anyi kelesiri n' ụdị o si eme ya na mbụ ' heyi Ọkammụta', ọ gwara n' olu mwute ka ịga njem Naijiria gburugburu n' oge nnukwu achụmnta votu emeela ya (n' ime ịlọghachi azụ ya n' Amerịka nwa oge) ịma uru ihe ndị nwere ka ihe efu bara dịka ọ nọrọ Amerịka afọ iri abụọ doro anya.