Worry About People’s Anger, Not Coalition

The Social Democratic Party (SDP) 2023 presidential candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has told President Bola Tinubu to be more concerned about Nigerians’ anger against his government than political coalition that could defeat him in 2027.

Adebayo noted that the president is politically savvy enough to know that the coalition is not his problem.

He said the President is focused on 2027 and has abandoned and failed to give good governance to Nigeria.

“He knows the people in the coalition. They are all friends.

There’s hardly anybody in the coalition who you cannot find 10,000 pictures of them with the president. They are all together.

“The real thing that the president should worry about is the resentment of the people and the problems that people are facing in reality. It is not the coalition that has been putting pictures and billboards all over,” he said in a statement.

The former SDP candidate noted that what Nigerians have under Tinubu is not administration but presidency.

“What you have is an imperial majesty in the presidency. Their eyes are not to the ground. Do not call them an administration.

Just call them the presidency, because they took a note of office that you are not the president, and they created a group who are in the state house. Beyond that, they have not been able to create an administration.”

He also noted that President Tinubu and his team of economic experts have not been able to give Nigerians a workable budget for two years running.

He said the president had presented two annual budgets to Nigerians but lamented that the last one was far worse than the first one. He stressed that neither of the two budgets has been able to get a grip of anything.

“They have not been able to write a single good budget. They are reaching two budgets now and the only difference is that the one that came after is worse than the one before. They are not able to get a grip of anything. They are not doing well with employment. They need to know that the tool for dealing with poverty is employment,” he stated.

He also picked holes in the much celebrated student loan programme, stressing that all that the Tinubu administration needed to have done to give education access to an average Nigerian without seeking for loan was to bring the cost of education down.