AAC in 2023 Elections ; all you need to know

AAC in 2023 Elections ; all you need to know

Considering the INEC time-table, the party leaders swung into action and ensured that all that’s  required of the party which includes submission of membership register, delegate list, mode of nomination to be adopted have been fulfilled by the party leadership and copies of acknowledgment from INEC are in the archive of the party.

As you may recall that the National Working Committee of our great party on 6th of May, 2022 announced the line-up of 2023 pre-election activities which has received massive acceptance by Nigerians, members and non-members inclusive.

The Activities includes the following-

Registration of Aspirants on the Expression of Interest portal  – https://aacparty.com/aspirant-application/ 

There are currently 109 Aspirants onboarded.

Note- The six-day extension by INEC announced on May 27, 2022 has made it now possible for people aspiring to run under the party to register as quickly as possible.  As an aspirant, please seize this opportunity to do the needful.

Leadership Meeting with Aspirants – 2 virtual meetings have held already and a loop has been created for continuous discussion. New aspirants will be added after registering on the portal link shared above.

Screening of Aspirants– A 7-person committee was inaugurated with Mrs Edith Isokpan chairing the Committee.
Note- This is a continuous process that has started already. Aspirants will proceed to screening after fulfilling financial responsibilities set by the National Working Committee. See details on financial responsibilities- https://aacparty.com/aspirant-confirmation-details/

Account Details –

African Action Congress

Zenith Bank 

1015977493


Date of Primaries – June 2nd (All categories except Presidential position) and June 3rd (Presidential)

Note- Any extension will be properly communicated to registered aspirants.

Other very important Committees that have been inaugurated by the National Working Committee:

1. AAC-TIB Committee- To look at the state of the party structures across sub-nationals and advise accordingly.
2. AAC Manifesto Review- Change is constant and as the name implies, the Committee has been saddled with the responsibility of reviewing the manifesto of the party to continually be in the best interest of our people.
3. AAC-Labour Relations Committee- This committee has some of the finest labour activists who are reaching out to labour centers (The NLC, TUC, ULC) across the country on behalf of the party. Work is ongoing.

There is no gainsaying that we are on full throttle as we coast to victory come 2023.

For more information, please contact-

Comrade Philip  Oshiokue

(National Organizing Secretary) 07033155960

NWC Inaugurates 2023 Aspirants Screening Committee

NWC Inaugurates 2023 Aspirants Screening Committee

Mrs Edith Isokpan to chair 2023 Aspirants SCREENING COMMITTEE. 

READ FULL PRESS STATEMENT

NATIONAL WORKING COMMITTEE SETS UP 7-PERSON SCREENING COMMITTEE FOR 2022 ASPIRANTS.

MEETS ALL ASPIRANTS ON 23/05/2022 OVER PRE-ELECTION ACTIVITIES.

In furtherance of the steps taken so far in the conduct of pre-election activities, the National Working Committee of the African Action Congress has set up a 7-person Committee to screen aspirants who have expressed interest to run under the party.

Members of the Screening Committee.
1. Mrs Edith Isokpan (Chair)
2. Ibrahim Tanko Esq. (Secretary)
3. Comrade Ken Henshaw
4. Mr Tope Temokun Esq.
5. Mr Ina Okopi-Agu
6. Mr Femi Adeyeye
7. Dr Abimiku Kukumah

The National Working Committee has tasked the Committee to do a thorough job in ensuring we give nothing but the best to Nigerians in terms of quality leadership at all levels as we head towards the forthcoming elections.
The mode of screening shall be decided by the Committee.

Also, the National Working Committee, the Screening Committee and State Chairmen will be meeting all aspirants of our great party, 23rd, May 2022 by 8pm.
Aspirants are implored to check the inbox of email addresses they provided for meeting details.

Signed:

Femi Adeyeye
National Publicity Secretary,
African Action Congress.
23/05/2022

Court remands Sowore’s lawyer

Earlier arrested Sowore’s lawyer, Marshal Abubakar has been remanded in Kuje prison by an Abuja court.

It was gathered that the Magistrate sitting at  Grade 1 Area Court, Kabusa had ordered his remand at Kuje Prison, till Tuesday, 8th of March 2022,on the grounds that his bail application was submitted, verbally.

Police arrests Sowore’s lawyer over lawsuit

Men of the Nigerian Police Force in Abuja have arrested Comrade Omoyele Sowore’s lawyer, Barrister Marshal Abubakar, of Femi Falana Chambers.

It was earlier reported that Barrister Marshal Abubakar was the lawyer who had sued the Nigerian Police, after the unlawful arrest of Omoyele Sowore, on the order of Ned Nwoko, on  the 24th of February 2022.

Omoyele Sowore had taken to his Facebook page to report the arrest. According to his post, the lawyer was forcefully arrested. His offence as claimed by the Police was that he defended Sowore and embarrassed them, by suing the Force.

BREAKING: Nigeria Police Force has just arrested Marshal Abubakar a lawyer attached to Femi Falana Chambers in Abuja for defending me during my recent spat with the police and so called “Billionairë” Ned Nwoko. Marshal D F Abubakar was traced to his home and forcefully arrested because he was accused of defending me. They claimed that he embarrassed the @police by suing them and Ned Nwoko on my behalf.

Sowore’s convoy attacked in Abuja.

Sowore’s convoy attacked in Abuja.

Occupants of the rear car in Sowore’s convoy were attacked by sponsored thugs on their way to the court hearing of the AAC vs INEC/ Usurpers. This information was made available by Mr. Omoyele Sowore, who took to his Facebook page, to report the attack. “… occupants were heavily assaulted and phones taken away”.Omoyele Sowore

 

“Today again in Abuja, Muhammadu Buhari regime sent assassins and thugs after us on our way to the Court of Appeal, they succeeded in double crossing our rear team, heavily assaulted occupants of the car and took their phones…”

It should be recalled that this isn’t the first time that Sowore and members of the AAC party face sponsored attacks.

 

#ASUUStrike: NANS pledges solidarity.

ASUU STRIKE: NANS MEETS ASUU PLEDGES SOLIDARITY.

National Association of Nigerian Students, (NANS), Southwest( Zone D), has pledged its support for the Association of Staff Union Universities (ASUU), in its ongoing strike action.

The leadership of the zone headed by the Coordinator, Comrade Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji, popularly known as “Teejay”, made this known in an official Press Release that was made available to the public in the early hours of 22nd of February 2022.

It should be recalled that the National body of the association, led by the National President, Mr. Sunday Asefon, had earlier threatened to mobilize students against ASUU, and to stall the progress of the demands of the Union.

Read below, the Press Statement:

The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS ZONE D) today, the 22nd February 2022 held an all important meeting with the leadership of ASUU LAGOS ZONE, basically over the ongoing one month warning strike embarked upon by its members across the Nation.

After much deliberations and intellectual engagement between both bodies , we assured the union of our solidarity and support in this titanic struggle. A major reason why we have considered to join our lecturers in demanding for their right is significantly the decay in infrastructure and social amenities across our universities thereby making teaching and learning process difficult for both the students and lecturers even as we are not unaware that their children are studying in diaspora.

As the most ideological zone in the apex students governing body NANS , we will mobilize machineries and our foot soldiers in solidarity with ASUU until the federal government meets all their major demands.

It’s a sad development to know that Federal government has not been funding most institutions created, and have turned same to a means of embezzling funds, thereby making most of this universities to extort students due to the retrogressive nature of the Nigerian education sector, leaving school managements with no option than to source for funds by any means which includes charging students high to access the same education they got for free.

It is worthy of note that the agitation and demands of our lecturers include; funding for the revitalization of public universities, earned academic allowances, University Transparency Accountability Solution, and promotion arrears, others are the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN Agreement, and the inconsistencies in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).

Finally, ASUU LAGOS Zone proposed that the only solution to the ongoing warning strike is amending the present law of university creations, adopting the system that supports that quality payment structure for educational workers, and adopting measures that must not further jeopardize the future of Nigerian Students but rather measures that prove and show the commitment that our leaders truly have our interest at heart.

Viva Aluta!

Comrade Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji pka Teejay
Coordinator, NANS Southwest (ZONE D)

#OccupyINEC: AAC storms INEC Headquarters

#OccupyINEC: Executives and members of the African Action Congress (AAC), led by the National Chairman, Omoyele Sowore,  stormed the INEC headquarters in Abuja, to again, warn the commission to desist from its interference in the party’s affairs, and to stop other practices that continues to diminish democratic operations in the country.

Below are videos from the action:

 

OBSERVATIONS AND THOUGHTS ON  IKPOBA OKHA WARD 2 INDUCTION- TIB Edo state.

  • OBSERVATIONS AND THOUGHTS ON  IKPOBA OKHA WARD 2 INDUCTION

In recent times, there has been an argument that only the ruling political parties have structures and that without structures,elections cannot be won, hence other parties like the AAC that assumedly is without structure does not stand any chance at the poll.

“MISSION192” is a deliberate plan to take AAC to the 192 wards in Edo state. It’s without equivocation a direct response to the issue of structure.

Incidentally, the induction took place at the venue where the PDP used to have their meeting. The landlord and other members of the community officially joined the AAC . We did not mince words in telling them that it simply meant that the people’s alternative has taken over.

About 50 people were in attendance. The people’s  excitement could not be hidden at the end of the event, because the long waited  alternative has been presented. According to the presider, he said that a man walked up to him and said “please register me, at that time I was attending to other people. He said My wish has come to pass, I have seen the seriousness from other Nigerians and now I am willing to join full throttle”.

There are many who want to see actions to show that the party is ready to take the country back from the selfish ruling class. We must organise more so that their confidence and faith can be built. “Blessed are those who do not wait for things to start happening but make things happen for they shall be counted as heroes of the liberation”.

There are 10 wards in Ikpoba Okha and a total of 10,340 polling units. The aim is to ensure that AAC gets to every ward in Edo state.  It’s instructive to  note that according to the party’s constitution the organs are; Polling unit, Ward,Local Government,State,National.

We are building a party that will not just contest election but instil a strong legacy of and our revolutionary ideas.

Signed,

Take It Back Movement,

Edo State.