Presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in the 2023 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has alleged that the All Progressives Congress, APC, stole his campaign slogan during the campaign for the 2023 election.
He equally decried the hardship brought upon Nigerians by the APC under President Bola Tinibu, and urged the party to now steal his ideas again and use them to better the lives of Nigerians.
“I hope that President Tinubu will steal some of my ideas just the way they stole my slogan during their campaign and use them to better the lives of the people.
“I want President Tinubu’s government to succeed. I don’t want their government to be a colossal failure in order to be able to defeat them in the next election, because if you are waiting for them to fail even more spectacularly than they are failing now, the people are going to suffer irreparably,” he said.
He stressed that the policies that the president and his team are now implementing were the things he and his team predicted when they were campaigning as they pointed out the implications then.
“He is running out of propaganda to use to explain it because a hungry man has no doubt that he is hungry. So, there is no amount of ‘food is coming’ that you can use to deceive a baby. It is only when the food comes that the baby knows it has come.
“So this is the situation. They are not improving in any index, they are not generating any employment, they are not bringing inflation down, they are not bringing prices of goods and services down, they are not doing better with getting people jobs, they are not doing better with security, they are not doing better in any area that is of importance to the people.
“So, whether it is food, clothing or shelter, education or health care; things that are measurable, they are nowhere and those are the things that we are discussing. All other sentimental issues, we have left for those who are very good at the politics of emotion.
“But, we are for politics of development and measurement, and things that even when we say them; even if you are Tinubu’s best friend or a member of his political party, you know that these things we are saying are quite true. Those are the things that we are talking about now and the manner in which we talk about them is such that we proffer solutions, so that should they have a second thought, they will look at the solution we are proposing and they will start to adopt our solutions,” he said.
He also told Nigerians that their current suffering was not by accident as he raised the alarm about what would befall them if they did not vote for the SDP, but lamented that Nigerians ignored his advice.
He, however, called on Nigerians to listen this time around as the country prepares for another election in 2027 so that they could get out of the current quagmire by rejecting Tinubu and the APC.
