Sowore To Sue Channels TV Boss For Excluding Him From Debate

The African Action Congress has written a letter to the Chairman of
Channels Television, Mr. John Momoh, threatening to sue him, the
Broadcast Organisation of Nigeria and the Nigeria Elections Debate Group
if its Presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, is not listed among
those that will participate in the Presidential debate

The NEDG,
organisers of the presidential debate in collaboration with the BON, had
revealed that it selected five candidates on “character, conduct and
other things of the candidates”.

Those invited include: President
Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress, former
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party; and a
former Minister of Education, Mrs.Oby Ezekwesili of the Allied Congress
Party of Nigeria.

The two others invited include: the
Presidential candidate of the Alliance for New Nigeria, Fela Durotoye;
and Young Progressives Party candidate, Kingsley Moghalu.

However,
in a letter signed by the National Legal Adviser of the AAC, Mr.
Inibehe Effiong, the party described the exclusion of Sowore as a breach
of Section 100 of the Electoral Act which states that all political
parties be given fair representation and media exposure.

The party said if Sowore was not included, the AAC would go to court to stop the event from holding.

The
letter read in part, “From the foregoing, it is apparent that the
decision to exclude the AAC from the NEDG/BON 2019 Presidential election
debate is unconstitutional, illegal, arbitrary, undemocratic,
unjustifiable and indefensible.

“Accordingly, I hereby demand the inclusion of the AAC in the scheduled NEDG/BON 2019 Presidential election debate.

“Please
take notice that if the AAC is not included in the said debate as
demanded, we shall commence legal action against you, the BON and the
NEDG in a court of competent jurisdiction to seek redress, including an
order of injunction restraining you, BON and the NEDG from holding or
organising the scheduled debate.”