Presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore of the African Action Congress (AAC) has distanced himself from a political commission led by Prof. Pat Utomi, which intends to hold talks with several presidential candidates to produce a single opposition presidential candidate for the 2027 election.
According to Sowore, he and his party are not part of the commission and will not join because the AAC represents a fundamentally different political and ideological direction. He said the party's revolutionary agenda is driven by ideological clarity, not by political convenience, elite horse-trading or desperation for access to power.
He said the AAC cannot enter into a coalition with the very political establishment it has consistently opposed. He noted that any politicians now presenting themselves as an alternative have, at different times, operated within the same political order across the APC, PDP, Labour Party, and other formations that have failed Nigerians.
"Our opposition is not merely to Bola Ahmed Tinubu or the evil All Progressives Congress party. It is to the political system and governing practices that have produced decades of poverty, corruption, inequality, insecurity and underdevelopment.
"The AAC is offering Nigerians a different path: a revolutionary break from the old order and a program founded on social and economic justice, equal rights, accountable government, and the redistribution of political and economic power to the Nigerian people," he said in a statement.
Sowore stated that the AAC will not abandon that program for an arrangement whose principal objective is simply to replace one set of establishment politicians with another.
"The AAC is different. We know what we stand for, and we know the Nigeria we are fighting to build.
"We are not part of these coalition talks, and we will not be joining them," he said.
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