Former presidential candidate for the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has revealed why he declined to attend the recent opposition political parties’ summit that was held in Ibadan, Oyo State.

Giving his reasons in a post on his official X account on Sunday morning, Sowore said he declined the invitation to attend the summit because he believes that: “Nigerians deserve a genuine alternative, not recycled failure”.

“I was invited to attend the so-called “Opposition Summit” in Ibadan, but I declined. There is no need to pretend that the same men (and a few women) who held Nigeria to ransom for years, presiding over stagnation, corruption, and systemic decay, can suddenly reinvent themselves as champions of progress or defenders of the people,” he said.

The human rights activist said: “Not all Nigerians are suffering from amnesia. For the avoidance of doubt, our revolutionary party, the African Action Congress (AAC), will not be part of any charade designed to recycle failed political actors under the guise of “opposition.”

Sowore said that the AAC is instead committed to presenting a formidable, people-driven alternative, one rooted in integrity, accountability, and genuine transformation.

He stated that the party will mobilise Nigerians across the country to rally behind a credible vision that rejects the “decadence and deception represented by both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and their opportunistic counterparts in the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party (LP) and elsewhere.”

According to him, Nigeria does not need a rearrangement of the same broken pieces, it needs a complete break from the past.