The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo has said that the 2027 election will be a contest between “the greed for the soul of the country” and a government “of the people, for the welfare of the people.”
Adedayo said this in his acceptance speech after his emergence as the SDP’s presidential candidate at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, Bauchi State.
He condemned rising insecurity, unemployment, and what he called “one-man rule” under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
He pledged that an SDP government would reduce poverty to 2% and unemployment to 4% within 2 years.
According to him, his administration would provide free, compulsory education “from cradle to job”; give every Nigerian four free medical screenings yearly via NIN; restore Ajaokuta, Kaduna Textile, and other moribund industries; guarantee territorial integrity and that there is no square inch of Nigeria where a terrorist can sound.
“I am not an enemy of any politician. I am an enemy of poverty. And poverty is Tinubu’s friend… I am an enemy of autocracy. And no greater tyrant is around than Bola Ahmed Tinubu,” Adebayo said.
He urged opposition parties, civil society, and Nigerians to rally behind the SDP ahead of the January 2027 presidential election.
He also accused President Tinubu of wanting to be the sole presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Labour Party, and SDP at the same time.
He also said that President Tinubu’s interference in the affairs of opposition parties despite clinching the APC presidential ticket is dangerous for Nigeria’s democracy.
“President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is not satisfied to be the presidential candidate of the APC. No. Bola Ahmed Tinubu wants to be the presidential candidate of the APC, PDP, Labour, and SDP.
“If you have a birthday party, he wants to be the presidential candidate of your birthday party. The greed for power has been defined. The greed for money has been detected. But the greed for the soul of the country, that’s one we cannot allow.
He bemoaned the harassment of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Joash Amupitan.
“Because they named him the chairman of INEC, but they won’t let him do the job. They tell him which party to register, which one not to register. They tell him which convention to attend, which one not to attend. They tell him which leader to recognize, which one not to recognize.
“That is why we in the SDP are going to contest the presidential election taking place in January 2027 with me as your flag bearer. Inshallah, by God’s grace we will win for the people of Nigeria.
“We will contest 109 senatorial seats with God-fearing patriotic Nigerians. And we will win and form majority in the Senate so that the Senate will not be a joking rubber stamp led by Akpabio as it is today. We will run 360 seats of the House of Representatives.
“And we will win so that we can have a people’s house that is truly representative. Not the house boy speakership we have now with Speaker Abbas. We will run in all the governorships so that we will have governors who are not marking as their greatest achievement leaving their state ungoverned. Helping a politician to go and submit his nomination form,” Adebayo added.
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