The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the forthcoming general elections, Omoyele Sowore, has challenged the presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of the Labour Party to join him in the February 4, 2023, Lagos City Marathon.
My name is Omoyele Sowore. I am the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, and I am going to be the Nigerian president after February 2023. I want to say here and it's very important to me that I observed one of the most peaceful elections in 1993. Had we allowed that election to stand, we would not be signing a peace agreement today because that you are signing a peace agreement in Nigeria shows that elections have become war in Nigeria.
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has accused supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu of tearing the posters of candidates belonging to other parties in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria. Sowore noted this during his speech at the National Peace Committee with Nigerian political parties chairmen and presidential candidates in Abuja last Friday.
The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has warned police officers, particularly men of the Lagos State Command planning a protest over their unpaid six-month salary arrears to drop their plan as any form of protest would be regarded as mutiny. SaharaReporters had exclusively reported that men and officers of the Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State Command aggrieved over non-payment of their arrears between January and June 2022, threatened to embark on protest to press down their grievances.
Solomon Akuma, a pharmacist detained by the Muhammadu Buhari regime has finally regained his freedom. Akuma has been under illegal detention since his arrest on April 2, 2020, in Abia State for tweeting that he would "pay a Russian sniper to eliminate (President Muhammadu) Buhari and (Abba) Kyari (Buhari’s former Chief of Staff)" in response to a Twitter post asking "if $1m hits your account, your next move?"