President Muhammadu Buhari, if elected president in the 2023 elections, will not attend Omoyele Sowore’s swearing-in ceremony, according to the African Action Congress’ (AAC) presidential candidate.
Sowore said this on Friday during an interview with Politics Hub, a political program on Vanguard Online TV. He informed the host, Damilola Ogunsakin, that he intends to become Nigeria’s president and not succeed Buhari.
He said,
“When I win the election Buhari will not come to the swearing-in. I think some of them would have left before the day of swearing-in and I’m serious about it. I just want you (Buhari) to know that you have a constitutional duty to hand over power.”
However, Sowore denied allegations that he had backed Buhari before the Nigerian president’s election.
When asked when he quit supporting Buhari, he responded,
“I never supported Buhari. You can never stop supporting somebody you never supported in the first place. What have prevailed over these years was to black mail my person by saying I supported Buhari because I was against Goodluck Jonathan.
“What I have always done in my entire life is to be opposed to terrible government, it didn’t matter who was in charge, even if it was my Dad I would have opposed him if he is acting like Jonathan.
“But this is how to solve the puzzle, If I asked you to provide just one evidence that I supported Buhari you will say you want to go an check and you are suppose to know it because I never did.
“There was no time in life that I campaigned for Buhari, wrote an article or approached anybody individully and say vote for Buhari. i didn’t vote for Buhari because I didn’t register to vote until 2018. The first time I voted in my life in this country and probably in the world was in 2019 election,” he said.
