2027: Current coalition efforts lack vision, ideology – Sowore

Human Rights Activist and former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said the current coalition efforts lack vision and ideology.

Sowore explained that the coalition would strengthen President Bola Tinubu’s bid for re-election rather than challenge it.

Sowore said on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday, described the current coalition talks as hollow, lacking ideological substance and purpose.

“I’m not a lone voice — the coalition is what is lonely. That’s why they can’t even hold meetings or find a party to join. Now they say they want to register a party — that’s loneliness. Any coalition without ideology is a lonely coalition. There’s no coalition without conviction, character, or integrity,” he said.

Offering his own vision for a way forward, Sowore called on Nigerians to stop depending on political elites and begin crafting solutions on their terms.

He added “The people need to understand that the only way out is the one they design for themselves. There has to be a different direction. If you keep letting them do what they are doing with you — and you get distracted by all these conversations about coalitions — you are going to find yourself in a worse situation than now. That has been Nigeria’s story since the emergence of civil rule. We don’t have democracy in Nigeria. What we have is a transition to civil rule. What we’re looking for now is real democracy.”

Sowore also differentiated between what he described as authentic activism and opportunism disguised as coalition-building.

“I’m the leader of the coalition of the oppressed — not the coalition of the hungry, led by Amaechi and the others,” he said.