Barely 11 days to the 2023 general elections, no fewer than five gubernatorial candidates of the African Action Congress (AAC) have disowned its party’s presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, declaring that he is undemocratic and quite inexperienced to serve as president of Nigeria.
The gubernatorial candidates were: Iboro Robert Oru, Akwa Ibom State; Aliyu Ahmed, Kwara State; Ray Ken, Enugu State; Mojeed Kehinde Okedara, Oyo State; and Aliyu Adamu, Gombe State.
Speaking on Monday Oru, who spoke on behalf of the other candidates during a press briefing, in Abuja, said Omoyele had shown himself to be an undemocratic element.
He said Sowore is the party’s presidential candidate and also doubles as the chairman and national financial secretary of the party.
He said: ‘As gubernatorial candidates and committed members of the African Action Congress party, in the past six months, we have come to see and have expressed reservations about the readiness, leadership, and attitude of our presidential candidate, Omoleye Sowore, who also doubles as the chairman of our party.’
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‘As a presidential candidate, against our advice of inclusiveness in party/team building and consolidating statewide structures, it is apparent he is not in the race and now clear his basic political inexperience and counterproductive divide-and-rule leadership style is not what Nigeria and Nigerians need at this moment of national healing nor will it lead us and indeed the party towards any socio-political or electoral win.
‘We, therefore, have decided not to back Omoleye Sowore or support his candidacy for president.’
While denouncing support for Sowore, Oru, however, said that in no time, a new preferred presidential candidate would be announced.
While bemoaning the spate of widespread hardship in the country, Robert tasked President Mohammed Buhari to as a matter of urgency begins addressing some of the anomalies currently being experienced by Nigerians.