Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, has encouraged Nigerians to reject candidates who he has characterized as political hustlers ahead of the 2023 general elections.
On Tuesday, Sowore sent a statement via his verified Twitter account in which he made this appeal.
His tweet reads, “Reject more of the same! Reject rent seekers, 10 percenters, dissemblers, hypocrites, opportunists, political gerrymanders, carpetbaggers, corrupt and failed political hustlers pretending to care about only because they want to take advantage of you! #WeCantContinueLikeThis.
“We need a clean break from the despicable past!” he added.
The AAC presidential candidate’s tweet was accompanied by a video clip of three other front-runners for the presidency in 2023: Peter Obi of the Labour Party; Asiwaju Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress; and Abubakar Atiku of the People’s Democratic Party.
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The video’s message, which is titled, “Storytime: A tale of shapeshifters,” reads, “Nigeria, open your eyes. Same people decamping telling sugar-coated stories.
“Selfish interest disguised as National interest. Personal safety over the security of citizens. Nigeria deserves a fresh start. Think third force. Vote wisely.”
Remember how Sowore recently “unveiled” how he assisted Obi in becoming the Labour Party’s presidential candidate?
Sowore revealed this during a memorial lecture in Lagos hosted in Chief Gani Fawehinmi’s honor, a late human rights advocate and lawyer.
He mentioned that there were requests for Obi not to be presented, which caused an issue for the Labour Party when choosing Obi’s candidacy.
The AAC candidate claimed that Sowore and activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, stepped up to the plate by pursuing legal action to defend the LP.
He said, “When the Labour Party ran into a problem. There was a member of the LP who insisted that the LP could not present the candidacy of Peter Obi. They had a legal problem. We went and obtain judgment in court; from the Court of Appeal, and handed it over to Falana to use it to defend the Labour Party, and by extension, Peter Obi’s candidacy. Yes! I’m just telling you that we’re in the business of saving people.”
He said there were moves to “flush out Obi in Anambra State twice, Sahara Reporters saved the day. Falana on a daily basis will call me, saying: ‘I don’t know Peter Obi, but we should not allow this injustice to pass, nobody should be impeached,”
As of that time, Sowore said, “Obasanjo was impeaching everybody impeachable at that time in Nigeria. That was how Obi was able to complete two tenures. So when we speak, we know what we’re saying.”
“We are saying that we have been standing with the Nigerian people but we don’t have any sense of entitlement,” he added.
