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Damiete Braide
Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has called on Nigerians not vote for the two major parties, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress APC), in the forthcoming elections.
Sowore, who is also the publisher of Sahara Reporters, made the call at Radisson Blu Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, on Sunday.
The AAC presidential candidate said people should vote for new parties that would turn the fortunes of the country around positively.
He recalled the past years of stagnation, under the watchful eyes of the two parties, which he described as unrepentant masterminds of the country’s political and economic doldrums.
He further advised Nigerians to forget about the “rented crowd” at rallies of the major parties and focus on the need for courage, in upstaging the horrible forces that have allegedly kept them in darkness.
He counselled the citizens to brace up and take the bull by the horn, emphasising the need to vote for conscience, rather than allow their votes to be swayed by pecuniary gains that have been consistently used to bait the electorate.
“Every trick in the political world has been played and outplayed by the political class. Nobody is carried away by money anymore; nobody is swayed by rented crowd and there is the silent majority that has made a decision this time around to vote their conscience. If the elections are free and fair, there is no rational human being who will vote for the PDP and APC, and what that means is that we have the brightest chance.”
Sowore, who spoke primarily to the young Nigerians, noted that they consist the largest demography in the country, and reminded them that the future rests with them. He urged them to remove people who have deprived them of basic amenities and made them residents of the poverty capital of the world. He encouraged young Nigerians not to give up in the face of hardship and despair, but, rather, make efforts to reverse the status quo.
The presidential candidate said the clarion call to redeem Nigeria must be heeded by all youths who intend having a thriving country they would be proud to call their own, and to have such a prosperous country, the youths who constitute major part of the electorate must speak in unity of purpose regarding voting his candidacy to power. Sowore said he is poised to effect a seismic transformation to the country’s dwindling fortune.
