The 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that most opposition parties in Nigeria are feeder parties to the ruling or larger political parties.
The news publisher added that most of the opposition parties in the country were created by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Special Purpose Vehicles.
According to him, the Labour Party (LP) is the worst of all the opposition political parties in the country because most politicians who joined the party only used it to grab power and after that, defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) or the APC.
Naijaonpoint reports Sowore made the submission on Sunday while speaking on Rubbin’ Minds, a talk show on Channels Television.
He submitted that AAC is the only opposition among the 18 registered political parties in the country.
“What we found out in our little research is that most of the parties that are left, apart from AAC, are parties that were created by the major parties. They call them feeder parties, or special purpose vehicles.
“And what they do is that when they want to go into election, they will fund candidates in those other parties, so that sometimes some of the candidates or the parties are meant to help them with legal challenge. So they all go and challenge the election, and whomever has won would approach either the opposition party or the smaller parties and settle them, and everybody gets paid and walk away, and they will hang around,” Sowore claimed.
The activist added that most of the opposition parties have no different ideologies from the ruling APC and don’t act like opposition parties when they go for meetings with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
“The people that oppose us the most when we go to meetings are these other smaller parties that you think are in the opposition,” he added.
Asked if his observations include the PDP and the LP, Sowore said, “Labour Party is the worst.”
According to him, most politicians only used LP to win elections.
“The Labor Party, I would say, is the worst when we go to meetings with them. And that is why most of the Labor Party candidates now are moving to the APC. They’ve always been very excited about belonging to the (ruling party). In fact, that’s why I refer to the Labor Party as a short rental. Most of them that went to Labor Party saw an opportunity, they were coming from either PDP or APC. They walked in there, grabbed and then the moment they had the booty bag, they went back to where they’re coming from,” Sowore alleged.
He agreed with the claim that the APC is attempting to institutionalize a one-party state in Nigeria.