A former presidential candidate of the African Action
Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, says current coalition plans will boost
President Bola Tinubu’s bid for re-election rather than challenge it.
Sowore gave this warning on Tuesday when he played host to
Channels Television’s Politics Today, adding that the efforts lack vision and ideology.
“It is what they [the coalition] are doing that will make it
easy for him (Tinubu) to rerun and return to office. They are preventing the
real, organic coalition of the oppressed from emerging. People are getting
distracted — Nigerians actually think these guys are fighting for them,” he
said.
He also described the current coalition talks as hollow,
lacking ideological substance and purpose.
“I’m not a lone voice — the coalition is what is lonely.
That’s why they can’t even hold meetings or find a party to join.
“Now they say they want to register a party — that’s
loneliness. Any coalition without ideology is a lonely coalition. There’s no
coalition without conviction, character, or integrity,” he said.
Sowore’s statements are coming following growing political
realignment as various actors position themselves for the next presidential
race.
Recall that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has been
championing the opposition front.
The 2023 presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, has confirmed holding talks with Labour Party’s Peter Obi and
former Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai — who recently defected from the
APC to the Social Democratic Party, SDP.
Meanwhile, the coalition efforts appear far from being
cohesive as the PDP Governors’ Forum has openly distanced itself from the
talks, citing concerns about undermining the party’s internal stability.
In the same vein, Obi has made it clear that he will not
join any alliance formed solely for seizing power, insisting that any merger
must address Nigeria’s deeper governance problems.
Sowore, while offering his own vision for a way forward,
urged Nigerians to stop depending on political elites and begin crafting
solutions on their terms.
“The people need to understand that the only way out is the
one they design for themselves. There has to be a different direction.
“If you keep letting them do what they are doing with you —
and you get distracted by all these conversations about coalitions — you are
going to find yourself in a worse situation than now. That has been Nigeria’s
story since the emergence of civil rule,” he added.
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