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Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate for the African Action Congress, has revealed how he supported Peter Obi in his bid to become the Labour Party's nominee for president.
Speaking on Monday at the memorial lecture honoring the late human rights lawyer and activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, in Lagos, Sowore claimed that the Labour Party encountered difficulties when deciding whether to offer Obi as a candidate because there were calls for his withdrawal.
Sowore claimed that he and campaigner and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, stepped up to the plate by pursuing legal action to defend the LP.
when the Labour Party encountered a difficulty. A LP member stated that Peter Obi's candidacy could not be announced by the LP. They faced a legal issue. We went and obtained the Court of Appeal's ruling in court and gave it to Falana so he could use it to support the Labour Party and, by implication, Peter Obi's campaign. Yes! We're in the business of saving people, I'm just telling you that, Sowore said.
The pro-democracy activist further asserted that he saved Obi from impeachment while he served as the governor of Anambra State.
The initiative to flush out Obi in Anambra State twice, Sahara Reporters rescued the day, he claimed, was made. On a daily basis, Falana would phone me and say, I don't know Peter Obi, but we shouldn't let this injustice pass; nobody should be impeached, adding that, at the time, Obasanjo was impeaching everyone in Nigeria who was impeachable. Obi was able to finish two terms in office in this way. We are aware of what we are saying when we speak.
We claim to have supported the Nigerian people, but we don't feel entitled to anything, Sowore furthered
According to The PUNCH, the Sowore, Falana, and a large group of people descended in Lagos on Monday for the 13th anniversary of Fawehinmi's death.
Three years after being detained by the Department of State Service in 2019, Sowore was making his way back to the state.
Chief Fawehinmi, a Nigerian novelist, publisher, social critic, and politician up until his passing, is cherished for his activism and pro bono legal representation of ordinary people.
Among other international honors, Fwehinmi received the Senior Advocate of the Masses award from Obafemi Awolowo University in 1988 before becoming a SAN in September 2001.
Fawehinmi was repeatedly detained and imprisoned for his activism by various military-run governments.
Debo Adeniran, the Chairman of the Centre for Anti-corruption and Open Leadership, Gbenga Komolafe, the General Secretary of the Federation of Informal Workers Organization of Nigeria, and others will attend the program on Monday.
The program, which was divided into three talks, has the following themes: (1) How should Nigeria move forward after 23 years of democracy and the election system? (2) The fuel subsidy regime: Oil industry corruption and a solution. (3) The Academic Staff Union of Universities is now on indefinite strike due to the crisis in the Nigerian educational system. Thank for Reading
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