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Nigerian activist and the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has announced his intention to contest the 2027 presidential election.
Sowore, in an interview with Channels TV on Friday, confirmed his presidential bid and added that the AAC will hold its primary election next week.
He said he would not impose himself on the party as its sole candidate.
“Yes. We have our primaries next week,” he said.
“Let the party decide who their candidates are,” he added.
Sowore further revealed that the AAC has yet to submit its party register to Nigeria’s electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), citing a recent court judgment allowing political parties to reopen their registration portals.
“We haven’t finally submitted, and that’s what this court judgment says. So if you have submitted now, the court says you can reopen your portal and start again,” he explained. “But we never stopped anyway.”
Sowore contested the 2019 and 2023 presidential elections but lost.
He has been a vocal critic of Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and other opposition politicians.
While speaking, he accused prominent politicians, including Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Seyi Makinde, and Rotimi Amaechi, of contributing to cycles of poverty, insecurity, pain, and suffering in Nigeria.
