Omoyele Sowore, a former African Action Congress presidential candidate, has criticized the current attempt by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, former Governor of Kaduna State Nasir El-Rufai, and other political leaders 2027 plans to establish a new alliance.
Sowore made the comments in Abuja on Monday while addressing reporters in separate interviews at the 50th birthday celebration of Lillian Adebayo, the wife of Prince Adewole Adebayo, a former presidential candidate for the Social Democratic Party.
Recall that Sowore had previously dismissed Atiku and Peter Obi’s coalition plans, he maintained that a large number of the coalition’s members lacked the legitimacy to support substantive reform ahead of 2027.
“I support coalitions and opposition. But not the kind that has people like El-Rufai. When the time comes, the moment they are offered what they want, they will go back to where they came from,”
“The APC was a coalition. Did you forget? The people who are asking to form another coalition were former APC members. In fact, most of them were Buhari cabinet members who are supposed to be in prison forming a union of prisoners, not coalitions,” Sowore said.
Peter Ameh, National Secretary of the Coalition of United Political Parties (CUPP), also stressed in a separate interview with reporters at the event that any alliance must represent the pressing issues facing Nigerians.
“For me, I think every gathering should have a little bit of discussion about how Nigeria should move forward because the current suffering that Nigerians are expressing under this incompetent governance system is something that we must halt.
“When Nigerians coalesce, it’s a coalition against government. There is hunger on the streets, Nigerians are depressed, and there are high tariffs on electricity and data and increases in everything. Since President Tinubu came into office, the cost of living has gone so high.
“It’s a reflection of what we are going through and a reflection of the pains Nigerians are facing. Going into 2027, as you have said, let me tell you very clearly, the coalition is good,” he stated.
