Sowore, a human rights activist, is scheduled to travel through Washington, D.C., during the North American tour, where he will also reunite with his immediate family after a prolonged period in Nigeria.
The presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has departed Nigeria for a tour of the United States and Canada as he steps up preparations for his 2027 presidential campaign.
Sowore, a human rights activist, is scheduled to travel through Washington, D.C., during the North American tour, where he will also reunite with his immediate family after a prolonged period in Nigeria.
The tour comes after an extended period during which Sowore remained in Nigeria campaigning for political and social change while facing repeated arrests, detentions and prosecutions by security agencies, including the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS).
Sowore has spent much of his adult life advocating for the rights and freedoms of Nigerians and challenging the failures and injustices of Nigeria’s political establishment.
Most recently, the DSS announced that it had instructed its prosecutors to pause the cybercrime prosecution against Sowore over his description of President Bola Tinubu as a criminal.
The decision came after months of legal battles and resistance by Sowore and his legal team.
During his North American tour, Sowore is expected to meet with Nigerians in the diaspora, supporters, activists and other stakeholders as the AAC intensifies its preparations for the 2027 general elections.
His engagements in the United States and Canada are expected to form part of efforts to mobilise Nigerians at home and abroad ahead of the presidential election.
Sowore is expected to return to Nigeria before the end of September to resume an even more rigorous phase of his presidential campaign in person.
His temporary absence from the country, however, is not expected to slow down the #Sowore2027 campaign, as the AAC says its campaign activities will continue at full strength across Nigeria.
While abroad, Sowore will participate virtually in campaign activities and engagements in Nigeria, while also physically attending relevant meetings and programmes involving Nigerians in the diaspora across North America.
The campaign’s message, according to the AAC, remains unchanged: Nigeria needs revolutionary transformation, equal rights and revolutionary justice rather than what it describes as another recycling of the country’s political establishment.