2023: Prepare to resist money bag politicians, Sowore tells followers

The national chairman of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has urged his party faithful to brace up for the highwire politicking that is expected to play out in 2022.

Sowore encouraged AAC members to vow not to mortgage their conscience and drive for a better Nigeria because of money from bag politicians.

In his 2022 New Year message issued on Saturday, Sowore thanked members of AAC for their “sacrifice of love and steadfastness at all times”.

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Part of the statement read, “Since the launch of our party on the 15th of August 2018, we have, with unimaginable energy reached out to the masses of our people, mobilized them with our revolutionary ideas and have made sure that our message of hope and liberation spread across the nooks and corners of the world, starting from our base here in Nigeria.

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“You all have made this spread possible in a short period through your unflinching support; times you had to send the last naira, last dollar, last pound and euro, helping with all sorts, travelling from far and near, just to make sure the mill of the revolution grinds well. I seriously want to thank you.

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“The AAC is our party, your party. As you all know that 2022 is our national convention year and as believers in democratic tenets, leadership would change. I urge all members and prospectives to be part of the process and engage as peace-loving individuals that we are known as. The dates and lines of activities shall be reeled out soon after all constitutional provisions have been fulfilled.

“At this juncture, on the state of the nation, | want to inform you that this new year, 2022 would be awash with a lot of neo-liberal attacks, democratic rights would be violated more by the state and the civic space would continue to shrink, but as usual of a penultimate election year, the Nigerian ruling class are prepared to throw crumbs around, to again secure their reign.

“I need not remind you that these crumbs are from our commonwealth; our collective patrimony that they have stolen for themselves and their cronies. It is a given that poverty has been inflicted on the rest of us and it has also been weaponized for social conditioning. | want to implore you all not to fall for this ploy and to also organize more resistance against their manipulation.

“I want to assure you party members that we shall not abandon any political process that would bring peace, progress and prosperity to our people as we have promised in our manifesto. The struggle has just begun. Fasten your belts for it is time to do more.”