Sowore unveils new party

Omoyele Sowore, the founder of online news agency, Sahara Reporters, yesterday, unveiled a new political party, African Action Congress (AAC), in the presence of teeming youths in Abuja with the slogan of ‘Take it Back’.

Sowore, who is also a presidential aspirant on the platform of the new party, is the AAC pro tem chairman.

He unveiled the party along with the national secretary, Dr Leonard Ezenwa.

The pro tem chairman said the party’s name was chosen strategically so that it would be at the top of the ballot paper with a logo of two hands which symbolized the diversity of Nigeria.

“What we need is for people to recognize us as a new political party for the future powered by intellectual, energetic people,” he said.

Asked whether he was ready as the youngest presidential aspirant, he said “I was ready to become president as of 1992 when I contested to be president of the Student Union in the University of Lagos.”

Sowore also denied reports suggesting that he and other presidential aspirants were preparing to form a merger party, adding that they were only trying to form a united front.

Dr. Ezenwa said the journey started as a movement named ‘Take it Back’ before developing it into a political party with the aim of chasing away the two strongest parties in the country, PDP and APC and revolutionize Nigeria’s political structure.

The party’s leaders were also accompanied by Dr. Chide Nwanyawu, the Enugu gubernatorial aspirant on the party’s platform and many youths from different states of the country.