The African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, took a swipe at his counterpart in the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for boycotting the 52nd Annual Accountants Conference in Abuja.
Sowore criticised Tinubu, who claimed to have studied accounting at Chicago State University in the United States, for not showing up at such an important event.
The 2023 presidential candidates were invited to the conference to speak to participants about their plans for the 2023 general elections.
Peter Obi of the Labour Party; Ifeanyi Okowa, vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP); Prof. Christopher Imulomen of the Accord Party and Prof. Peter Umeadi of the All Progressives Grand Alliance were absent at the event.
Sowore said, “The candidate that did not show up is supposed to be an accounting guru from Chicago State University but he refused to show up at the most important accounting event in Nigeria today.”
The activist condemned President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2023 budget proposal.
He said the 2023 budget proposal violated section 12 (1) of the 1999 Constitution by the fiscal responsibility Act of 2007, which states that the deficit to Gross Domestic Products (GDP) ratio of the national budget should not be more than 3 per cent.
“We are now at 5 percent, that is unsustainable,” he said.
Sowore further stated that, “I am here to talk about things that are not sustainable in Nigeria. I want to talk about one of you who carried out unsustainable act of accounting, with the stealing of over N150 billion – the Accountant General of the Federation. That is not sustainable.”