The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, says rather than worry about the planned coalition by opposition politicians, President Bola Tinubu should be concerned about the people’s anger against his administration.
Waxing comical, Adebayo described those planning the coalition as Tinubu’s friends.
“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.
Addressing journalists in Abuja,
he blamed President Tinubu for allegedly focusing on the 2027 elections and abandoning governance, saying, “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 noted that President Tinubu and his team of economic experts have not been able to give Nigerians a workable budget for two years running, stressing that neither of the two budgets has been able to get a grip of the situation in the country.
Speaking on one of the celebrated programme of the present administration, the 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 stalwart 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.*
