Human rights activist and 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has said that he would have acted differently if he had won the last election.
Condemning actions taken by President Bola Tinubu, especially the removal of subsidy on his first day in office, Sowore said the move by the president was wrong.
Speaking on a Channels Television interview on the mid-term review of President Tinubu’s administration, the activist said the impression that all the 2023 presidential candidates had plans to remove fuel subsidy is wrong.
He said, “I want to correct the impression that if any other candidate won the 2023 election, the same would have happened. If I had won, I wasn’t going to remove the fuel subsidy.
According to Sowore, his focus would have been to remove subsidies for public officeholders and their cronies who were stealing from the nation’s coffers.
He added, “I was going to stop subsidising those who are stealing from the poor. I wasn’t going to float the naira the way they floated it.”
Sowore noted that what Nigeria currently needs is the rejigging of the nation’s economy with monetary policies that focus on production, manufacturing and creating an enabling environment for businesses.
He said that putting such policies in place would be beneficial to the people as it would ease the pain and suffering bedeviling the nation and its citizens.
“So, I wouldn’t have done what they are doing now, maybe the other candidates of other political parties would have done the same thing because they are not different from the ruling APC,” Sowore said.
