Omoyele Sowore, the African Action Congress (AAC) candidate for president, maintains that young Nigerians still view him as a superior option to other candidates and that he has not lost favour with them.
Sowore responded, “I have no doubt…that followership is still there,” when asked if the youths still view him as a viable alternative on Politics Paradigm, a Channels Television programme that aired on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.
The 61-year-old Peter Obi, presidential candidate for the Labour Party (LP), has recently been more well-liked among young people. They use social media and go on solidarity marches to promote his candidacy over those of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (APC).
However, Sowore responded, “No, not at all,” when asked if he had lost favour with young people, unlike during the run-up to the 2019 elections.
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He claims that not all of the young people who took part in the EndSARS demonstrations in October 2020 are in favour of Obi. The former governor of Anambra State, according to him, did not support the demonstrators.
Was Peter Obi a part of EndSARS? Sowore questioned, saying that he has always supported young people. Not every young person who took part in EndSARS is a fan of Peter Obi.
Sowore criticised some candidates’ sense of entitlement as they prepare for the election the next year. He asserted that discussions regarding the poll shouldn’t involve discussing concepts.
At a gathering in Ogun State when he repeated his aspiration to become president of Nigeria, Tinubu popularised the Yoruba phrase “Emi lo kan,” he claimed that he was not one of them.
