Omoyele Sowore, Activist and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress has justified his non appearance at the opposition summit held in Ibadan, Oyo State. He argued that Nigerians deserve a credible alternative rather than what he described as a recycling of failed political actors
Sowore argued in a statement he post posted on his official X handle that the gathering as lacking substance, arguing that many of those involved had previously contributed to Nigeria’s challenges.
“I was invited to attend the so-called ‘Opposition Summit’ in Ibadan, but I declined,”
“There is no need to pretend that the same men (and a few women) who held Nigeria to ransom for years, presiding over stagnation, corruption, and systemic decay, can suddenly reinvent themselves as champions of progress or defenders of the people. Not all Nigerians are suffering from amnesia.”
“For the avoidance of doubt, our revolutionary party, the African Action Congress, will not be part of any charade designed to recycle failed political actors under the guise of ‘opposition,’”
“Instead, we are committed to presenting a formidable, people-driven alternative, one rooted in integrity, accountability, and genuine transformation,”
“We will mobilise Nigerians across the country to rally behind a credible vision that rejects the decadence and deception represented by both the All Progressives Congress and their opportunistic counterparts in ADC, PDP, Labour Party and elsewhere,” he said.
“Nigeria does not need a rearrangement of the same broken pieces, it needs a complete break from the past.”