Adedokun Waliyu 
Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) in the 2023 general election, has reacted to the criticism against him by his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
In a pre-recorded interview with Arise TV reporters aired on Friday, July 22, 2022, the former Vice President claimed that Sowore has little knowledge of happenings in Nigeria because he lives abroad and only come in every four years to contest election.
Quoting Atiku, he said, “he doesn’t even know, because he (Sowore) lives outside the country, he comes every four years to contest the presidency, he fails and goes back again. So, what does Sowore know about this country? Absolutely nothing.”
In a swift reaction, the Sahara Reporters publisher took to his Twitter page to fire some shots at Atiku, saying “it’s time to quit”, after reeling out some of the things he claimed to know about the country.
“AAC presidential flag-bearer challenged Atiku to give account on, how under his regime as Vice President, the country spent billions of dollars on electricity with little or no result to show for it.
He said Atiku “failed to address how $16bn was used to procure darkness” under his regime, which was the question asked by the reporters before he chose to lay into Sowore.
Since 1999, you have lived in about five countries outside of Nigeria. I know this because your IP keeps changing the same way you kept changing political parties. We both contested in 2019, it was my first time contesting, but after the elections, you left, I stayed. I’m still here!
“You’ve done your rounds from the SDP-UNCP-PDP-ACN-PDP-APC back to the PDP, you have never done anything for the Nigerian people, you’ve only taken care of your needs and those that benefit your family, cronies, and friends. It is time to quit and let Nigeria experience electricity!”
He concluded: “My question again, is this; what happened to the $16billion released for electricity during your tenure as Vice President?”
