Social Democratic Party (SDP) Presidential aspirants, Prince Adewole Adebayo said SDP and other parties are working together to defeat the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 adding that Women and youth will be given their rightful places in leadership and governance under his presidency.
Speaking after he submitted his
letter of intent to run for the 2023 presidential election under the platform of SDP, Adewole who express confident in the new electoral act as an improvement on the former assured his supports of victory and woo the Nigeria electorates to support and mobilize for the party and his candidature for the 2023 election. Adding that the collaborating between his party, the SDP and other political parties will bridge the gap and them win the 2023 presidential election. Said women are part of the country, in cognizance of their strength and value in nation building as someone who was breed up by women, I personally share in their agony and struggle for a better society hence, I brought my wife here in my quest to identify with the women and their challenges as our mother, wife, sister, daughter etc. The problem of women are the same problem of the country. The women want jobs, the women want security, they want a good society and they want freedom. Everyone want that, once these problems are solved , their agitation will be taken of, and opportunities will created for them to harness their God given talents, explore and thrive. Women and youth will be given their rightful places in leadership and governance under my presidency.
On the plethora challenges bedeviling the Nigeria nation state, Adewole acknowledges they are many challenges in the land from insecurity, power, umeployment, decay in education and morals, infrastructure etc however said they are all offshoot of leadership problem.
The legal luminary who said he offer himself to provide the needed leadership with which solutions are inherent said previous and present leaders in the corridor of power know the solutions but deliberately ignored them for self aggrandizement while the masses to suffer.
“The solutions are known but the leaders have been shying away from them. Nigeria require leadership that is why we are contesting under the platform of the SDP to provide the desired leadership,”
On his choice for SDP in the midst of other political parties, he said he has been moving around the Third Force and Megal Coalition of Political Parties however, has settled for Social Democratic Party (SDP) as the party to contest the Presidential election and win it for the people of Nigeria, ensuring they have the required leadership to providing solutions to the plethora challenges bedeviling the country.
“I am in SDP to win the presidential election for Nigerians. When that happens, Nigerians will see and experience quality leadership, SDP is the best platform for me and for Nigeria. Building on the legacies MKO Abiola and other founding fathers, the presidential aspirant sssured Nigerians that SDP will win again and have a better winning than 1993.
“We are coming with fresh men and fresh ideas. The problem of Nigeria is not whether we resources with which solve our plethora challenges but how to manage our resources for solutions. In the past, when the resources were managed well, the country had a better everything compare to now”
On women and youths. Adebayo said “women are part of the country, in cognizance of their strength and value in nation building as someone who was breed up by women, I personally share in their agony and struggle for a better society hence, I brought my wife here in my quest to identify with the women and their challenges as our mother, wife, sister, daughter etc. The problem of women are the same problem of the country. The women want jobs, the women want security, they want a good society and they want freedom. Everyone want that, once these problems are solved , their agitation will be taken of, and opportunities will created for them to harness their God given talents, explore and thrive. Women and youth will be given their rightful places in leadership and governance under my presidency,he added.
On power and education, he lament on the fuel and electricity crisis, saying that electricity can easily be generated.“You generate power in your house through solar and electric generator. Why can’t it work for the entire country? The politicians in power don’t want it to work. This administration has negative electricity generation, however vow to end the continuous striking by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) when voted into office in 2023 as president.
“It’s a problem that can be solved. Something can be done about it to out this strike issue to a stop. We have too much money, yet ASUU is on strike. I will ensure that the tertiary institutions are managed by the academia. As long as the non academic people continue to manage the universities, we will continue to have problem,” Adewole Adebayo