One of foremost presidential aspirants on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewale Adebayo on Monday said the security challenge and other social malaise rocking the nation was perfectly understood to him.
Adebayo spoke in Abuja on Monday, after he picked his nomination form to contest presidential election in 2023, said, the solution to insecurity in Nigeria was the same thing with solution to unemployment, fuel scarcity, but the incompetence of government made the challenges look as if there are insurmountable.
According to him, it’s known to everyone including the government in power that insecurity in Nigeria has become a huge business and it took determination to nip it in the bud.
Adebayo said: “The solution to insecurity is the same solution to fuel scarcity, unemployment, it is a competent Government that is determined to solve the problem
It is because the insecurity has been turned to a business that it is difficult to nip Boko Haram and insecurity in the bud.
“I have confidence in the Nigerian armed forces and Nigeria security agencies are so strong that they are sufficient to secure the country.”
The presidential aspirant lamented that scarcity of fuel in the country which he attributed to crude oil theft, but believed that Nigerians themselves were those to win the war, if they are determined.
“We have refineries which supposed to give us about 75% of what we need they killed the refineries.
“The crude oil which we used to swap by giving them dirty and they give us white the crude oil being sold is being stolen by the Government and its friends.
The presidential hopeful was optimistic that he would win the election on the SDP platform, noting that the party was strong enough and connected with the people at the grassroot.
“I am in this race not to make it but for Nigeria to make it and SDP is a party I examined that has had problems because they don’t believe in cutting corners and is a party that is just ripe for people like us who are connected to the people of Nigeria who are not money bags; who want to do what Abiola did in 1993 which is using SDP to galvanise Nigerians together.
“It is not a party that wins election, it is the people of Nigeria that make the party to win and what SPD is doing is working with us to galvanise the Nigerian people, so that the power which which is to be won can be freely expressed in a free and fair election and when that is expressed Government will expressed the dividend of democracy on the people.
“Moreso combined with all the other alliance parties to be able to get the people of Nigeria taking advantage of the electoral act that has passed that we are going to win the election not just by saying so, but by working very hard in each of the 186,000 plus polling units.
“The new thing we are bringing to the table is our newness, we are not part of morass, we are coming with fresh people, fresh minds, there is an abiding understanding of the problems.
“The problem of Nigeria is not economy, it is not finance, it is not infrastructure, the problem is character, the leadership character has been missing and people are not doing justice in office because they appropriate these offices to themselves; appropriate the resources of the office before the time and all the privilege of governance is appropriated to themselves; family and their friends.”
