A media organisation, Daria Media, has invited six foremost Nigerian presidential candidates to a town hall meeting ahead of the 2023 general election. This was made known in a press statement released by the organisation on Monday and obtained by SaharaReporters, noting that the town hall meeting would be held from 17th of November, 2022 till 23rd of November, 2023.
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Former presidential candidate of the African Alliance Congress (AAC) in the 2019 general election, Omoyele Sowore, yesterday, in Abuja, led a group to protest his expulsion from the party he claimed he registered in 2018. x
The protest was staged at the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) where Sowore and others submitted a letter to the commission, containing a seven-day ultimatum for the electoral body to restore the party to the “original owners” or risk more protests.
Sowore threatened that if he failed to get justice before next week Monday, his members would occupy all INEC offices nationwide.
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March 15, 2021
African Alliance Congress (AAC) has disowned it Presidential candidate in the 2019 election Mr Omoyele Sowore over his occupy Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) protest, saying that Sowore is impersonating its National Chairman, Dr. Leonard Nzenwa, and as such should be arrested.
Sowore had on Monday led a group to occupy INEC in Abuja, an action that met a stiff opposition by members of AAC led by Dr. Leonard Nzenwa.
The Sowore group is seeking recognition as original owners of the party whereas INEC has already recognised the Nzenwa-led group.
Describing Sowore as an impostor that should be arrested, AAC said that they were not against him protest, but he should not use the party’s platform to do his personal business because he had been expelled from AAC.