Sowore on channels tv, in an interview with roadmap has said he will win the presidential election comes 2023. Omoyele, the presidential candidate of African Action Congress said he will win the coming election because a lot of Nigerian people are tired of the bad system.

“A lot of people in their millions are tired of this old system of doing politics. They are tired of hunger, starvation, scarcity, terrorism, banditry, corruption in this country and they have indicated that they want to turn things around and I have presented myself to do so and I have made very powerful arguments wherever I have been given the opportunity.

“My credibility and consistency of thirty years can be attested to. Nigerians don’t want the same people who were governors for eight years and ruin their states. They don’t want people who have never stood up for anything. I have been standing up for the Nigerian people for most of my life and I have never been remunerated for it, and I am not looking for remuneration.

“I just want to keep doing what I know how to do best, which is to stand up for the people who are vulnerable in our society and those who may not be vulnerable but deserve a better place to live. Not everybody wants to leave Nigeria, some people want to stay. And there are so many people who leave
and later discover the grass is not as green as thought on the other side.

He said he is standing up for them and he believes, having been made and given the opportunity to present himself, Nigerians can see transparency through him and vote for a leader that can work for them .

“A leader that is capable, a leader that has integrity, a leader that believes in progress and prosperity for the country, a leader that has ideas and is able to present them and share them with many people.

“I don’t just think I will win, I know I will win. Because it will be a win-win for the Nigerian people and I believe they will take that decision sooner than later, he said.”

In an interview with the NTA, the presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore has said he is more experienced than all of his opponents combined. Recounting his involvement in the past events he said, “I have been part of every event in this country from which there was a transition of governance to another.
“When I was a student leader, I was part of these people who fought, that is leadership. I was a leader who took bold steps to say military rule must end.

“It took us a while, there were bruises, i was detained at least eight times before i left nigeria, i was expelled twice and was almost killed at the university of lagos, i was poisoned at a time and after ten years in 1999, that process came to an end an we were victorious.

He said if he was a soldier, his name would have been written in Gold.
“If I were to be in the Nigerian army, having fought for ten years, I would have been given different titles. My shoulder would be filled with epaulets because I would have been a victorious soldier.

He mentioned his consistency in the involvement of the continuous transition of government

“After that I left the country, there was another transition that was needed which was from civilian to civilian transition which ended in 2007. I was one of the people who sent obasanjo off from becoming a third term president.

“I made another transition which was professional. I studied geography and planning at the university of lagos and ended up becoming a successful journalist.

He said these are the track records that people look at. Leaders who are dynamic, who can adapt and speak to issues, who can stand up for issues, who understand leadership, followership, who understand the issue affecting their people.

“I became a publisher in 2006, Sahara reporters became a global brand. I opted not to go to the world economic forum but i opted not to go to the world economic forum, i went to the world social forum instead to learn about social issues, land, resources, and when that ended there is another transition in this country that people didn’t take note of.

“We had a president that was voted into power in 2007 then, he was sick. This country was held to ransom by cabals behind that late president, and when the country was looking for people to resolve the problem, I came in handy, using sahara reporters to expose every part of the schemings behind.

“There was supposed to be a coup but the publication we did which is now confirmed by the former chief of army staff by that time thwarted the coup.

He said being experienced has nothing to do with being in power alone.

“It might just be that you are a great witness of history, it is a great experience because that helps you understand your country better. What serious countries call experience is not occupation of offices or power, it is character and capacity that the person must have developed himself over time, understanding the issues and solving problems, whether in the private or public sector.

“I have been of service to my country. I have been a public servant but as a citizen servant as opposed to a paid public servant.

“Any experience that carries sacrifices is more important than the one that carries remuneration.

“I am better experienced than most of them because I have sacrificed everything I could that I have, to become the leader that I have become today, he said.”

The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele sowore in an interview with NTA has refuted the popular saying that Nigeria is a complex state.
He said Nigeria is not as complex as people think. “Whoever says Nigeria is complex hasn’t been to a complex society.
“I have lived in the United States for 20 years and just one state in the US, Alaska, is bigger than nigeria. California is half of Nigeria, Texas is seventy five percent of Nigeria, these are just three states and there are fifty of those states managed by one person, the president of the us.

“But because we’ve been conditioned to believe that every problem is complex then we often refer to Nigeria as a complex place to govern. “I understand that there are two hundred and fifty different languages and several other tribes and cultures managed but that is not an excuse for anyone who wants to manage a state or a country within which you can get from one destination to another in an hour and fifteen minutes. I’ve been to countries that should typically be more complex than nigeria.

He said he has been to third world countries, peaceful countries, socialist countries, communist countries, capitalist countries and all of them are governed by one person.

He said solutions to the supposed complexity is what matters. “The moment we throw the complexity of a country as an excuse, we are not looking for a solution but a pity party.

“Leaders look for solutions and not to define complexity as something that cannot be overcome.
We have overcome different ages, from the stone age to a very computerized age and now we are in the age that is defined by artificiality, artificial intelligence.

He maintains that there is nothing complex about constructing a good road network from Lagos to maiduguri.
“It shouldn’t be complex to build hospitals nor be complex to finish Lagos ibadan expressway, the AAC flagbearer said.”

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The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore participated in the just concluded marathon in Lagos.

He had earlier challenged all other presidential candidates to join the race in which none of them appeared.

However, his supporters came in their numbers to join him in the marathon race tagged #RunWithSowore.

The African Action Congress (AAC), and our presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, hereby condemn in the strongest terms, the currency and fuel shortages deliberately inflicted on poor Nigerians and wreaking socio-economic havoc across the country. We place the blame squarely on the incompetence and irresponsibility of the Buhari-led APC government. True to its character, this government has precipitated a crisis clearly targeted at deepening the suffering of the Nigerian people whose welfare and security should ordinarily be its priority.

Against every sane advice, and without the slightest shred of public input, this government launched a wasteful scheme to redesign (read recolour) the national currency purportedly in a bid to trap looted funds stashed outside the financial system, check counterfeits, and restrain politicians from amassing cash to compromise the electoral process. Having been hastily conceived without public input and shambolically implemented , the policy has proven an unmitigated disaster with ordinary Nigerians now caught in the middle.

The banks have obviously colluded with rogue politicians and bureaucrats to horde the limited quantity of the new currency injected into the system by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) whose compromised leadership can do very little to compel compliance.

Banks and Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) all over the country are empty. Our people can not access their meagre savings to buy food and meet other necessities as starvation stares them in the face. A wave of mass anger is sweeping through the country, and chaos looms if the situation is not immediately remedied.

We believe that, with due diligence and foresight, the government should have deployed a range of liquidity management policy measures, to achieve the objective of reducing monies in circulation for vote-buying in the elections, instead of adopting a poorly thought-out option that merely succeeded in exposing the Nigerian people to needless suffering. The government should also have focused on strengthening INEC and the security agencies to enforce our electoral laws by apprehending and punishing vote buyers and other electoral offenders. This has not been the case. The Buhari government has rather put Nigerians through hell than directly confront the rogue politicians in his party and their clone parties.

Sadly, the desperation occasioned by the chaotic execution of this policy will further make our people vulnerable to the monetary inducement of the same politicians purportedly targeted by the policy. In essence, the Buhari government may, in fact, be setting up a fertile ground for rigging and vote buying by making access to money scarce in the run up to the elections.

Meanwhile, even before the start of the currency crisis, Nigerians were already grappling with severe fuel shortages and astronomical increases in fuel pump price by more than 100% in some areas. This condemnable situation has worsened inflation and driven millions more into poverty.
As we write, none of the country’s refineries is functional. Trillions of naira continue to be looted under the guise of fuel subsidies, while our people are forced to queue for hours in search of products they never get, or at prices they cannot afford when they manage to get the fuel.

The AAC and our candidate, Omoyele Sowore, are deeply troubled by this wave of attacks against the Nigerian people. We demand an immediate resolution of the currency and fuel crises so that our people who are already on the brink will not be pushed over.

We urge the Nigerian people to bring an end to this characteristic incompetence of the APC government and its sister parties by voting for the AAC in the coming elections. Our party, with our _People’s Manifesto_ is implacably dedicated to the total liberation of the poor masses from the clutches of the APC and its sister parties of the rich few who have held Nigeria and Nigerians down through the years.

Signed

Onyinye-Gandhi Chukwunyere

AAC Presidential Campaign Spokesperson

The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele sowore is still being held unjustly in nigeria.
Comrade sowore was arrested in the middle of a dead night on august 3rd 2019 for speaking truth to power. After his unlawful arrest, he was detained for 5months at DSS facility in abuja and thereby restricted to abuja (City arrest) for 3 years. Sowore would be the third person to be restricted to a city in the history of Nigeria after chief obafemi awolowo and pa imoudu.

During the course of his trials, sowore has been severally and severely attacked and faced with brutality from both the police and sponsored thugs.
He lost his brother, who was shot at by unknown gunmen, to the cold hands of death and was unable to travel to his hometown to mourn.

Also, during his unjustly restriction to abuja, he has been arrested and rearrested overtime and despite his tribulation and inconveniences, the AAC flagbearer has out of concern, campaigned and secure the release of several individuals, groups of people, known and unknown, who have been unjustly arrested and detained.

On March 21, 2022. The federal high court in abuja declares (#RevolutionNow) sowore’s arrest and detention illegal and award him damages against the lawless dss.

Sowore remains the only presidential candidate that cannot travel out of the country for his campaigns due to an unjust court order.

As of the time of filing this report, the presidential candidate , Omoyele sowore is still restricted to Nigeria, his passport seized and unable to travel out of the country and hasn’t seen his immediate family, wife and kids in 4 years.

Sowore is the only presidential candidate who as an activist has been consistent in demanding justice, fairness and equity for the Nigerian people.

The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore has said Nigeria practices capitalism for the poor and socialism for the rich. He made this statement while speaking on the ‘state of the nation’ in economy aspect, at the Nigerian bar association and presidential candidates conference.

“Nigeria practices capitalism for the poor [go and work hard]; and socialism for the rich [sit back and get waivers, sit back and buy companies that we spent billions to make for peanuts, and we will still give you grants.

“The Nigerian economy needs to change its philosophy. The economy of Nigeria since the military took over had a different makeup dictated by the world bank and the IMF(structural adjustment program).

“It has been imposed on Nigerians to the extent that ‘Nigeria practices capitalism for the poor and socialism’ for the rich.
Until the Nigerian economy serves the Nigerian people in such a way that the Norwegian economy serves Norwegian people ( nordic socialism), we are not going to get anywhere, he said.”

He mentioned that students get paid to go to school in Denmark, unlike Nigeria that shut down its schools for 9 months and expects progress.

“Nigerians ruined their country with people who have no knowledge. A knowledge based economy is what we need.

He said the leaders of Nigeria are economic terrorists. “They are terrorizing our economy, disables, treasuries, they are terrorizing people by making sure they don’t have jobs, they terrorize workers by paying them slave wages.

He described those who are managing the monetary policies as a glorified bureau de change organization and in conclusion, Mr Sowore said that Nigeria is a country of talkers and he wants to be a doer.

AAC presidential candidate, speaking on security at the NBA conference with other presidential candidates said that Nigerians need a leader that understands the importance of human lives.

“We have not gotten to a point where Nigerian leaders understand security. Human security is the first security that should be encouraged. You cannot crush one hundred and thirty three million people into multidimensional poverty and expect the country to be secured, it wont work. What Nigeria needs is a leader who understands the importance of human lives.

Mr Sowore further said to solve security problems, nigerians must understand fundamentally what the Nigerian security architecture is all about.
“The Nigerian security system is not meant for nigerians. Nigeria’s security system is for the elites, those in power. Nigeria’s security system therefore operates what is known as a police state.
“All our policemen, investment recruitments in the judiciary are meant to protect those who are in charge of nigeria.

He said in Abuja, they are less policemen at checkpoints and more at the Nigerian rulers’ houses.

The presidential candidate said for Nigerians to be secured, nigerians must vote without sentiments. “For us to get a Nigerian security for the Nigerian people, the Nigerian people must be able to vote for a Nigerian leader because, any leader that is voted for religious reasons is going to be the leader for the religious movement. Any leader that is voted on ethnic basis can only represent his ethnic concern. Any leader that is voted on the basis of any primordial sentiment will only represent that primordial sentiment and that is why Nigeria is where it is today.

Wale Fapohunda, the former commissioner of justice in Ekiti state has said that the presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore’s manifesto is the only manifesto that addresses administration of justice, out of other presidential candidates’ manifestos.

The former commissioner of justice made this statement at the ongoing NBA dialogue with Presidential Candidates

“I have looked at the manifestos of the Presidential candidates, only ⁦Omoyele Sowore has a manifesto that addressed administration of justice, he said.”

The presidential candidate of African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore attended a meeting between the Nigerian Bar Association and other presidential candidates in Abuja today. The human rights activist came across the prosecutor that unjustly tried him for a treasonable felony and told him there was never a case in the first place when asked by the prosecutor how far the case had gone.

He took to his Facebook and posted, “Today at the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) #NBASTATEOFTHENATION dialogue with Presidential candidates in Abuja, I ran into the prosecutor hired by the Muhammadu Buhari to try me for “Treasonable Felony” Mallam Hasan Liman (SAN), he asked “how far with your case” and I told him there was never a case against me in the first place. Today, he’s come to represent Emilokan at the conference. Mr. Lomas abandoned my case after an embarrassing abduction of my person in the Federal High Court. As I always stated: “One Day the Tables Will Turn” #WeCantContinueLikeThis”.

Omoyele Sowore was arrested on the 3rd of August, 2019 for planning a protest tagged “Revolution Now!” and was released after 5 months in detention at Abuja. He was thereafter restricted to Abuja, (City arrest) for more than 3 years.

As of the time of filing this report, the presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore is still restricted to Nigeria, passport seized and unable to travel out of the country.