By Christiana Ekpa
The African Action Congress (AAC) has said the December 5th, 2022 Federal High Court, Abuja ruling against the party in its matter with Omoyele Sowore, the party’s presidential candidate, is not an end to AAC’s victory in the 2023 presidential election.
A statement issued by Sylvester Cletus, National Publicity Secretary of AAC, the party said “The court sidestepped the substantive issues in the matter brought to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to stop recognizing Omoyele Sowore as the party’s National Chairman and its Presidential Candidate at the same time.
“The court neither made reference to INEC nor addressed the expulsion of Sowore who the party expelled in August 9, 2019 during that years presidential polls. And all through this period he has been deceiving gullible Nigerians especially those in diaspora that he is contesting for presidency on the social media when Nigerians at home knows very well that the Blogger is a comedian and businessman that seek media attention.
“It was indeed a bleak day that further demonstrated that justice in Nigeria is threatened. We should make no mistake about it that Nigeria has a long way to go and the faith in the country by responsible patriots is dwindling to irredeemable proportion daily.
“We thank all party faithful that stood strong with the leadership to continue to fight a travesty that promotes one man to purport to own a mass-based, people-centered and constitutional repugnant position that a political party should be owned by one man, be its National Chairman and also its presidential candidate same time.
“We reiterate that this legal setback is not an end to victory road. We remain resolute that this conspiracy of the judiciary and INEC to promote this sort of evil will continue to be fought and checked.
“Options for the next line of action(s) are being weighed even as this will be communicated across. We will never give up. Our people will always be put first!”, the statement said.
