WE CAN WIN A NEW NIGERIA ONLY THROUGH SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL #REVOLUTIONNOW!
(Being the Press Statement issued by the African Action Congress (AAC) National Executive Committee (NEC) on the 28th, April, 2021)
Good day gentlemen of the Press. You are welcome to this world press conference organized by our great party; the strongest, broadest and most organized opposition to the shenanigans of this regime and system of oppression and exploitation- the African Action Congress (AAC). We have gathered here today at this critical period to address the state of the nation, reiterate our position on the way out of this quagmire viz a viz, massively organizing the oppressed people of our dear country and to warn anti-democratic elements in INEC against the shrinking of the electoral space.
Nigeria is living in the most troubled, tragic, and tumultuous time ever. This is beyond sad as the signals have been there for a long time. We have been resisting over and over from the great Anti-SAP struggles through the June 12 Revolts to the tens of general strikes peaking at the January 2012 Uprising Against Fuel Subsidy Removal, as well as massive students’ and youths’ demonstrations that recently culminated into the groundbreaking #EndSARS Revolts that not only shook Nigeria and Africa but also the entire globe.
But the ultimate measure in all of these is the need for a party that would unite all oppressed which the African Action Congress (AAC) is honoured to be building from 2018.
This NEC which is constituted by all members of the National Working Committee (NWC) and State Working Committees (SWC) of the thirty-six (36) states, having met under the backing of sections (112) of the party’s constitution, discussed numerous developments in the party and the country at large.
NEC-in-council particularly and rigorously discussed and took consequent decisions pertaining but not limited to criminal attempt by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to hijack our party and sell to the whims and caprices of the seemingly big and looting political parties.
The party’s NEC-in-Council also had extensive deliberations with far reaching resolutions bordering on the state of the country, which by the way seems to be heading in the direction of barbarism and complete anarchy.
The resolutions of the NEC are as follows:
INSECURITY AND THE FREE REIGNS OF TERRORS
The case of the Federal Government’s defence of the Terrorist Minister of Communications, Isa Pantami justifies our long held positions that the Buhari/APC government is a fascist behemoth that is a bandwagon of united multi-faces of violent crooks and packaged criminals whose embodiments of brazen stealing and acts of greed and impunity is second to none ever!
We are sure that Isa Pantami is just a point of contact to most others who are hiding under different clothes and ridiculous garbs. This is a government formed by tested and brutal criminals whose chief is a mannequin of insatiable thirst for massacres as can be seen recently in #Lekki, Obigbo, Owerri, Southern Kaduna, most of North-eastern villages and towns.
AAC NEC therefore calls on all Nigerians to be clear about breaking away from this hell of a government. Enough of lamentations, it's time to rise and call the bluff of this government by sending them packing once and for all through a revolution!
REVOLUTION OR SECESSION OR 2023: THE FIRST IS THE SAFEST!
There is a clamour for real and fundamental upturning for the better of the rot we live in today. But it comes in the shades of three; whether to do revolution, to secede, or to simply wait till 2023. In all of these three, the most basic, clinical, unifying, and massive is the revolution. Secession is lawful but too expensive, divisive, and doubtful. Only those who believe we can vote our oppressors out without a fight waits till 2023. But with the lessons from the January 2012 Uprising and the #EndSARS; the revolution is the first, best, and safest!
INEC’S IMPUNITY AGAINST PEOPLES’ DEMOCRACY
Collaborating in the most unprincipled and unprofessional way with an expelled secretary of the party, INEC plans to deprive the Nigerian people of the opportunity to freely elect for themselves, a revolutionary alternative as against the over two decades of miserable rule of the APC and PDP. The NEC holds that at no point did it suspend or expel its national chair and the continuous recognition and dealings with party usurpers is in contravention to the constitution of the AAC and a shameless departure from the electoral act. It is to this end that we demand that:
1. Recognition of Omoyele Sowore as the National Chairman of the African Action Congress and other National Officers who were elected along with Sowore at the Lagos Convention by the commission.
2. Stoppage of efforts to remove State Chairmen of the AAC across the country and a clear memo to this effect should be sent to all Resident Electoral Commissioners.
3. INEC must stop its unprincipled and unnecessary meddlesomeness in the party.
4. Deregistration of political parties- It is crystal clear that the Nigerian people have passed a vote of no confidence on the two sides of the evil coin that have destroyed the country and whatever could be regarded as nationhood- the APC and the PDP. We know for a fact that the deregistration of political parties, purported appeal records against victorious court judgments, amongst other malfeasances perpetrated by INEC have reduced the confidence of the voting public and also constricted the electoral space more than ever witnessed in the history of this country. We therefore call on INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu to, in the interest of the mass of our people, respect the principles of constitutional and participatory democracy, by disembarking on the shameful journey to deny Nigerians their democratic rights to multiple political options. As a party established on solidarity and democratic tenets, we call for the expansion of the electoral space by INEC in order to provide a level play ground as an independent umpire would.
Long live the African Action Congress!
Signed:
‘Femi Adeyeye
National Publicity Secretary
Ina Okopi Agu
General Secretary
Omoyele Sowore
National Chairman
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