As the countdown to the 2023 presidential elections gets under way, Mr. Adewole Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) presidential flag-bearer, has ruled out the possibility of forming an alliance with any other political party.
Adebayo made the claim on Friday, August 26, 2922 in an interview with journalists in Abuja.
Although the SDP looks to have limited scope and influence in the current political scene, he claimed that the party has absolutely no plans to merge or form an alliance with any other political party.
He acknowledged that the party was the underdog but said, “We would never enter alliance or merge with any other party in the existing scheme of things.” He also promised that the party would soon make shocking political watchers-watching announcements.
Having won a prior presidential election that was later thrown out by a former military dictator, Gen., in 1993, he said that the party had gone a long way.
Adebayo argues that the SDP is the ideal party to help Nigeria overcome its current economic, political, and social problems and exhorts Nigerians to support the party in order to change the course of the nation.
The presidential candidate commented on the conflict between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), making the case that bad leadership and pervasive corruption were at the heart of the feuding parties’ ongoing inability to come to an amicable agreement to save the education sector.
Adebayo stated that if elected president, he would make sure that the government has no business managing institutions and that university councils alone should be in charge of doing so.
He claimed that university governing boards should have responsibility over university money, which would enable universities the freedom to manage their own learning and research-related operations.
Adebayo bemoaned the damaging effects of the ongoing strikes on the future of the country and called the ongoing ASUU strikes “a battle between ASUU and contractors in government.”
In order to ensure that every Federal Constituency has a unity school to deliver high-quality education to the general public, the presidential candidate promised to raise the number of Unity Schools in Nigeria to 360.
Adebayo spoke on the pervasive insecurity in the nation, saying that Nigeria required effective government to tackle the issue decisively and put an end to the willful killing of Nigerians in the nation’s many areas.
“What Nigeria needs is good governance. We should elect a good government that understands our diversity as a nation,” he stated, pointing out that anarchists were currently using terror to create confusion nationwide.
