‎African Action Congress, AAC, presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has alleged that he was charged for defamation because he refused to apologize to President Bola Tinubu. ‎‎Speaking with journalists shortly after his trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, Sowore vowed never to apologize to the President. ‎‎The activist said it rather President Tinubu that should be apologizing to the Nigerian people for presenting himself for an office he ‘is not qualified for’. ‎‎He said, “Someone told me that the reason they’re charging me is because I refused to apologise to President Tinubu. Atiku called him a forger and a drug baron yesterday.