He noted that the PRP his party joined were the ones who came directly from hero of the party, Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, who he met personally in 2019.
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, Omoyele Sowore, has reiterated that his party’s alliance with People’s Redemption Party, PRP is to liberate Nigerians from their oppressors and not an alliance of the oppressors like some other parties are doing.
The AAC and PRP had last week got into a formal alliance and announced collaborative efforts to rescue Nigeria from the tyrannical leadership and win the forthcoming general elections.
Meanwhile, Sowore who was a guest on a programme tagged “Insight With Lawrence” on Citizens FM in Abuja on Monday, said more groups of people had reached for similar alliances that would sell the message of liberation to the Nigerian people.
He noted that the PRP his party joined were the ones who came directly from hero of the party, Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, who he met personally in 2019.
He said, "We joined PRP because we have logical similarities, there is no need to go and join a Labour House that does not have workers. It doesn't fit our ideological narrative and DNA.
"There is no point joining a political party you don't have similarities or ideological convictions. These are the people we find to be legitimate on the side of the people who believe in our manifesto and we have trust in.
"The people we align with are the people in the PRP who came directly from hero of PRP, Alarabe Musa who I met in 2019 before he died and had conversations with us to form alliance even then. They are the real PRP we know and those are the people we have alliance with.
"PRP as of today is logically the Nigeria's oldest political party, founded by Malam Aminu Kano and officially registered in 1978 but has been as a concept ever before then.
"Malam Aminu is very popular in the North; he has nothing but the interest of the masses at mind. So many of his disciples are still around, and we want that to continue. The liberation of the oppressed as the priority, particularly economics advancement for the poor; those are the same things we are pushing for in AAC.
"Any alliance that can extend your reach to new population and new demographics in the country, it's something that is worth celebrating. When this alliance came from nowhere, you can attest that there were massive excitement in the country and it has been persistent.
"The alliance is to bring in more people and since the alliance broke, we have had more groups of people reach out to us for similar alliances that will advance our penetration into voting public and continue go deeper and sell the message of liberation to the Nigerian people.”
"Our major goal in AAC is liberation or liberty on the ballot, and now we have another group who feels the same way and we allied with them. Other parties are also creating alliances as well, but those alliances might be alliance of oppressors. Our own is alliance of the oppressed," he added.
While speaking on the 2023 general elections, Sowore said, “I have told you, how much anxiety towards the 2023 elections, first is the credibility of INEC to conduct the election, the ability of INEC, issues that are beyond the control of INEC. The fourth position is my conspiracy theory, that some people may not want this election to happen, people at highest level, the government.
“The ruling party might prefer interim national government, they might be doing this to create objective condition to make those acceptable to Nigerians. But I want to say is that right now in every part or almost all regions of Nigeria, everybody is convinced that the Nigerian State has lost territories to non-state actors.
“If you go to North East, terrorists are in charge of many local government areas and spaces. If you go to North West, bandits are controlling territories. If you go to South South, oil militants are back. If you go to South East, it is the worst because not only are there daily attacks on INEC officials, facilities or electoral targets; they have an official position, the militants or agitators in the area said they don't want elections in Biafra land.
“Also, in South West, there are people who said they want Yoruba Nation, that they don't want to vote. In the North Central part of the country, the herdsmen and farmers is not going anywhere.
“You don't expect people to vote in this insecurity conundrum as we have them spread across the country. There is this general apathy towards credibility of the organiser of the election, INEC that they might be working for the ruling party.
“All these pose lots of problems for security of voters, freedom of movement and credibility of the officials who having done any great job since 2019, in terms of free and fair elections in the country.
“We can't overlook any of these things; it's troubling that two months before elections, nobody can be sure how elections will take place in Nigeria.”