Dr. Leonard Nzenwa, the national leader of the African Action Congress (AAC), has disowned Omoyele Sowore, who has decided to run for president in 2023 on the party’s platform.
Sowore was dismissed from the party in 2019 and cannot, by any stretch of the imagination, run for office on its platform, according to AAC, which also noted that the records are unmistakable.
On Tuesday, the party’s national publicity secretary, Sylvester Cletus, made a statement to that effect.
The party stated that this explanation is required as a result of enquiries into the alleged declaration, which the party was ignorant of and never consented to.
Part of the statement states, ” The National Secretariat of the party in Abuja has cleared the air that Sowore’s purported intention to contest for president on AAC platform when he knew he had long been expelled from the party shows it is a joke taken too far.”
It stated that the presidency of Nigeria is a serious constitutional business for competent, charismatic, passionate, and resourceful citizens with genuine passion and patriotism to provide progressive leadership that will improve the people’s well-being and restores Nigeria’s greatness, rather than for people like Sowore.
“However, the party will only entertain eminent, credible, responsible and patriotic Nigerians who share the same ideology, vision and manifesto of African Action Congress aimed at improving the people’s standards of living. Such charismatic personalities will be given the privilege to contest on the party’s platform so long they meet the constitutional requirements for positions they desire.
“AAC tickets are not for those pursuing personal agenda or aggrandisement at the detriment of disrupting national peace, unity, stability, cohesion and advancement,” it added.
