Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party(SDP) in the 2023 general elections, Adewole Adebayo, has said President Bola Tinubu and his All Progressives Congress(APC) can compete alongside candidates from other political parties if there are drastic changes in terms of macroeconomics, security, poverty and employment.
He advised President Tinubu to go home and thank God for the opportunity to have ruled Nigeria for four years if things continue the way they are at present into the 2027 election, because Nigerians would definitely send him packing.
He stressed that Nigerians have better options outside the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which he described as Siamese twins, adding that what Nigerians need is new direction.
“I think we need to understand that Nigerians have options if by 2027, something changes in Tinubu’s government, in terms of macroeconomics, in terms of security, in terms of poverty, in terms of employment, then he becomes competitive.
“But the way it is now, I think that for the good of the country, or even for the good of the President himself, he should just go home and thank God that he has been the President for four years,” he said.
On the PDP zoning it’s presidential ticket to the South, Adebayo said the problems that Nigerians have with the PDP is not just the rotation of president between the North and the South but 16 years of bad governance.
“The luck that the PDP has is that as bad as their government was, APC has managed to equal them or even top them in mismanagement, otherwise, Nigerians were not happy with the 16 years of PDP, and I think we haven’t forgiven them.
“So, it’s good that they’ve done this rotation thing, so as to make it easier for them to allow people to more substantive arguments as to how to run the government. But I don’t think Nigerians want to see PDP in power,” he said.
