Prince Adebayo Adewole, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) nominee for president, has explained the party’s justification for sticking with the platform of the late Moshood Abiola, who was the party’s former standard bearer and widely believed to have won the June 12, 1993, presidential election.
On Channels Television’s Politics Today on Friday, Adewole made a live appearance and declared, “The candidate we had in 1993 was a fantastic candidate for 1993.” “With today’s knowledge, the candidate we have for 2023 is the ideal choice for 2023.
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“All the good things that Chief MKO Abiola proffered in 1993, we’ve not forgotten any of them. What we have done is improve on each of them to meet modern times. So, we are better equipped now and the evidence of what we predicted is now clearer to the people.”
“Once we eradicate poverty across the country, it wouldn’t matter whether you’re in the North or the South, the indices of poverty are the same, which is that people don’t have access to good food, housing, medical provision, and education. We need to make sure that we make investments in our people.
“Once we invest in all of those things, whether you’re in the North or South, I can guarantee you that an SDP government will be able to eradicate poverty in this country. At that time, we’ll have a new paradigm where people are being judged by the talent that they have and the ability they have to be productive.
“That was what we promised in 1993 in that book, ‘Farewell to Poverty,’ and that’s what we are promising now in ‘Farewell to Poverty and Insecurity.’ One thing is clear, the candidates are different. The only thing is that the candidate now is much improved,” he stated.
