The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore, has publicly declared his assets ahead of the 2023 general elections.
Sowore’s assets declaration is coming in response to the challenge by a civic organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), urging all presidential candidates to publish details of their assets and to publicly commit to rejecting vote-buying and electoral bribery before and during the election.
“Dear @YeleSowore Ahead of the February 2023 presidential election, we’re again calling on you to show leadership by urgently publishing details of your assets and publicly rejecting vote-buying and electoral bribery before and during the elections,” SERAP had tweeted on Saturday.
SERAP also made the call to the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP), Labour Party (LP), and All Progressives Congress (APC), among others.
Replying to the tweet, Sowore listed two cars; four mobile phones; a house in his hometown in Ondo State, which he claimed is worth about N5 million; his media company, Sahara Reporters; and a four-bedroom bungalow in New Jersey as his assets.
His series of tweets read: “I have 2 used cars: a Toyota Camry & Lexus RX 350, a home in my village worth maybe N5m, three iPhones, a Galaxy Note 10 Lite (if you could call those assets), SaharaReporters Media Group (don’t know the worth as of today), a four-bedroom bungalow in New Jersey & nothing more!
“The Federal government of Nigeria froze my bank accounts since 2019 after I was arrested over #RevolutionNow protest on August 3rd 2019. A @gtbank account I operated in Nigeria had N4,800 left in before my arrest, I managed to open a @kudabankhelp with N463.00 as of this evening
“I also recently opened a @capitalone US bank account that has in it about $300, I have a @ZenithBank campaign account for the #Sowore2023 Presidential account. I have nothing more besides financial support that I occasionally get from friends and family (if those count as assets).”
He added that he had never operated an offshore account(s) or worked with a tax haven to hide any asset, adding that he rejects vote-buying on or before the 2023 general elections.
“I have never operated any offshore account(s) or worked with my tax haven to hide my assets. These are the assets I have in my entire life,” he tweeted. “I reject vote-buying on or before the 2023 election date.”
Following Sowore’s declaration, SERAP has urged other presidential candidates to follow suit.
“BREAKING: We’re calling on @atiku @officialABAT @PeterObi to take a cue from @YeleSowore by urgently publishing their assets and publicly rejecting vote buying before and during the February 2023 general elections,” SERAP tweeted.
“BREAKING: We’re calling on @KwankwasoRM to take a cue from @YeleSowore by urgently publishing his assets and publicly rejecting vote buying before and during the February 2023 general elections.”
As of the time of writing this report, Peter Obi of LP, Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Nola Tinubu of APC, Rabiu Kwankwaso of NNPP, and others have yet to make a public declaration of their assets as directed by SERAP.
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