Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, on Thursday, advised President Bola Tinubu to be concerned about Nigerians’ anger against his administration rather than worrying about the planned coalition by opposition politicians ahead the 2027 general elections.
Adebayo described the masterminds of the coalition for the 2027 elections as Tinubu’s friends.
According to him, “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.”
The SDP 2023 presidential flagbearer stated this while addressing journalists in Abuja, blaming Tinubu for allegedly focusing on the 2027 elections at the expense of the good governance of the country.
He stated, “What Nigerians have under President Tinubu is not administration but presidency.
“If we are to be fair to the Tinubu government, we should talk about the Tinubu presidency, not the Tinubu administration, because there’s no administration going on.”
He also expressed regret that President Tinubu and his team of economic experts had not been able to give Nigerians a workable budget for two years running, stressing that neither of the two budgets had been able to effectively address the situation in the country.
Speaking on the much-talked about student loan,
Adebayo said, “I don’t agree with them on their student loan, because all you need to do is bring the cost of education down, and an average person will be able to go to school without a loan.”
On the recent visit of President Tinubu to Katsina State, the SDP chieftain said, “The decision of the president to go to Katsina to talk to the Service Chiefs and our men and women in uniform, gladdened my heart to no end.
“This is because that’s a time which ordinarily, President Tinubu that I know, would have been spent with his political allies and thinking how to do some other things, but on that day, he went and saw the troops. He needs to follow up with the troops.
“I’ve been making some investigations since that time. I noticed that the morale of the armed forces became better. Even those who are not in the front where he went felt that they had a commander-in-chief.”
