Omoyele Sowore, the presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has refused the Department of State Services’ (DSS) proposal to postpone his cyberbullying trial until after the general elections in 2027.
Instead, Sowore is calling for the DSS to drop all charges, put an end to the trial, and apologise in public.
The AAC candidate stated in an interview on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief on Monday stated that the DSS’s motion to halt the case indicates the agency is attempting to conceal its shortcomings after recognising the trial would not be successful.
He said that the DSS does not have the legal authority to halt a trial that has just begun and accused the security services of attempting to manipulate the justice system.
He said: “We are not seeking an adjournment. We want you to apologize for doing this to us, and ensure that you compensate people who are wrongfully tried for committing no crime at all.
“You have no right to suspend the trial you have already started. You should go and withdraw your charges. That is the only way out, and the only provision left in our law books. This shows clearly what we have always stated about all the security agencies: that they have complete control over the judiciary.”
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According to Sowore, the trial was an abuse of governmental authority intended to make free expression illegal.
He further stated that the DSS had installed a foreign monitoring device on his vehicle to follow his whereabouts.
Speaking about the situation of the economy, Sowore vehemently denounced the elimination of the fuel subsidy by the current administration.
He pointed out that although politicians continue to live in luxury at the expense of the nation, the removal of the subsidy has resulted in extreme hardship, hunger, and inflation for regular Nigerians.
According to him, the actual problem with the fuel subsidy was corruption, not the subsidy itself.
“They have all agreed that the problem with subsidy is not that it is inappropriate; it is the fact that somebody is stealing it. Take the hands of the thieves away and let the people who deserve subsidy enjoy it,” he noted.
“You have to make the well-being of the people a priority. This is sustainable, and let me explain how that works: for every 1,000 Naira you put in the pocket of the poor, you have democratized wealth; it gets down to everybody.
“Under the system you have in place now, you remove subsidy from the poor and over-centralize wealth in the hands of a few. Who are these few people? Governors.”
“The inflation you’re talking about is tied directly to their corruption and the fact that they’re getting so much money,” he said.
If elected president, Sowore promised to return the subsidy to help poor Nigerians.
He stated that his administration would focus on fixing government refineries, catching the people stealing public funds, and gradually shifting the country toward green energy, such as solar power and trains running on Compressed Natural Gas, CNG.
He also defended his campaign promise to pay a minimum wage of N500,000, explaining that putting money directly into the hands of ordinary citizens is the only way to genuinely grow wealth from the bottom up.
On his preparations for the 2027 elections, Sowore dismissed concerns about the massive cost of deploying polling agents to all 176,000 polling units.
He said the party is introducing a mobile app that will allow everyday citizens to volunteer as agents and upload results directly on election day, avoiding the corrupt practice of buying votes.
