Sowore Rejects Ibadan Summit, Calls for new Alternative
Last update: April 26, 2026
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Sowore says Nigerians deserve a genuine alternative, not those he called recycled failure...
Nigerian activist and former presidential candidate Omoyele Sowore said he declined an invitation to attend an opposition summit in Ibadan, dismissing it as an attempt to recycle discredited political figures.
Sowore, who ran under the African Action Congress in the 2023 election, said the gathering did not represent a genuine effort to offer Nigerians a credible alternative to the current political order.
“There is no need to pretend that the same men who presided over stagnation and corruption can suddenly reinvent themselves as champions of progress,” he said in a statement.
He added that his party would not participate in what he described as a “charade” involving established opposition groups, including the All Progressives Congress, People's Democratic Party, Labour Party and African Democratic Congress.
"We will mobilize Nigerians across the country to rally behind a credible vision that rejects the decadence and deception represented by both the @OfficialAPCNg and their opportunistic counterparts in ADC, PDP, Labour Party and elsewhere", he said.
Sowore said the African Action Congress would instead focus on mobilising Nigerians around what he called a people-driven movement based on accountability and systemic change.
