According to SERAP, Nigerians deserve to know the financial standing of those seeking the country's highest office before entrusting them with public power.
African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has challenged the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) over its latest appeal for all 2027 presidential candidates to publicly declare their assets, insisting that he had already done so before the 2023 general elections while many other candidates ignored similar calls.
Sowore, in a post on his X (formerly Twitter) account on Sunday, accused the civic organisation of failing to hold other presidential candidates to the same standard after they refused to disclose their assets ahead of the last election.
"My Assets were declared when you made the call in 2023. Others refused to declare their assets, yet you kept completely mute about them. Why not sue them to force them to declare their asset before election? #Sowore2027," he wrote.
Sowore's reaction followed SERAP's latest appeal to all 19 presidential candidates cleared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2027 election to voluntarily publish their assets and liabilities and publicly reject vote-buying before the polls.
