Focus on people’s anger, not coalition ahead of 2027 – SDP Adebayo tells Tinubu

By Jude Opara

Prince Adewole Adebayo, leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, has warned President Bola Tinubu that his main concern should be the growing anger of Nigerians, not a political coalition that may challenge him in the 2027 elections.

In an interview with journalists, Adebayo stressed that Tinubu is politically astute enough to recognize that the coalition is not the real issue.

“He knows the people in the coalition. 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,” he said.

“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.”

Adebayo further criticized Tinubu for focusing too much on 2027 while neglecting the needs of the country.”

He blamed President Tinubu for focusing on 2027, abandoning governance and failure to give good governance to Nigeria. He noted, ‘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 continued, “What you have is an imperial majesty in the presidency. Their eyes are not to the ground. Do not call them an administration. Just call them the presidency, because they took a note of office that you are not the president, and they created a group who are in the state house. Beyond that, they have not been able to create an administration.”

Adebayo also pointed out that neither of the two budgets presented by Tinubu’s government had successfully addressed the country’s issues.

“They have not been able to write a single good budget. They are reaching two budgets now and the only difference is that the one that came after is worse than the one before. They are not able to get a grip of anything. They are not doing well with employment. They need to know that the tool for dealing with poverty is employment.”