The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the forthcoming 2027 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo has said he would reduce the level of poverty in the country of given the opportunity to preside over the country.
In his acceptance speech after he emerged as the presidential candidate of the party at the National Convention held
on May 9 2026, at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and made available to newsmen on Friday, Adebayo states that if elected, in the first 18 months of his administration, poverty will reduce to just 2% in the country.
He assured of rapid job creation and the provision of the critical infrastructure that would make life more meaningful to Nigerians, irrespective of where they’re living.
“The mandate you have given to me today we will campaign to all parts of Nigeria with a job and works and employment programme that will reduce unemployment to 4% in 2 years. With the mandate you have given to me today we will use 1/3 of the savings we make from not being a corrupt government to put road in every village, every hamlet, every street in Nigeria in 4 years.
“With the mandate you have given to us today we will go to Nigerian people to make education qualitative, free and compulsory for every youth in Nigeria. And our education will start from elementary school, continue to primary school, continue to secondary school, continue to university, polytechnics, colleges and continue until you get a job. Until you get a job, you have not graduated. Our jobs programme combined with our education programme will take you from the cradle to the office where you are going to work.
“The mandate you have given to us today will give qualitative free and affordable health care to every Nigerian wherever you are. Your National Identity Number (NIN), will be your health insurance number as well. Every Nigerian, however healthy you are, will have four medical examination every year”.
The presidential hopeful further vowed to recover every national asset that has either been stolen or under valued and given away on a platter to cronies of former administrations.
“All the Nigerian companies that have been sold for pennies, stolen, cannibalized, asset stripped, we will reconstitute every company, every enterprise that we inherited from our leaders in the first and second republic”.
“Our refineries will work. Kaduna textile will work. Gombe textile will work. Every state will have textile, cement, carpentry, wood, everything so that our people will not only have factories, they will have housing estates, they will have staff school, they will have staff club, they will have everything that will reconstitute our society back”.
Adebayo equally gave hope on the security situation, promising to strengthen the armed forces to ensure that every inch of the nation’s territory would be recovered from bandits and other notorious non state actors holding them for their nefarious activities.
“With the mandate you have given us today, we will go around Nigeria to preach a mandate of territorial integrity. There is no square inch of Nigeria where a terrorist can sound. There is no part of Nigeria where a bandit can stop anybody from going anywhere. The bandits will go when Tinubu goes. The terrorists will follow Tinubu, their business partner, and go. Boko Haram, who has his headquarter in the villa, when the man in the villa goes, Boko Haram goes with him.
“We are going to have a strong army. The army I used to know, the army members of my family served in and lost their lives. The army of Nigeria that something happened in Congo, they say call Nigeria. Something happened in Liberia, they say call Nigeria. Something happened in Sierra Leone, they say call Nigeria. Sudan, call Nigeria. Lebanon, call Nigeria. Rhodesia, call Nigeria”.
He added that the SDP will contest the gubernatorial elections, the 109 senatorial seats as well as the 360 seats of the House of Representatives and the various State Houses of Assembly.
