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.
