The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 elections, Adewole Adebayo, has stated that the party backed out of the decision to work with the leaders of the African Democratic Party (ADC) coalition because they failed to answer 99 per cent of their questions.
Naijaonpoint reports that Adebayo, during an interview with journalists on the state of the nation, said the SDP shared the same objective with ADC leaders that Tinubu is not supposed to occupy the office of the presidency and would be a mistake to keep him beyond 2027.
Adebayo, however, stated that SDP could not continue with the coalition leaders because they could not answer their questions.
According to him, SDP tried to engage the ADC coalition leaders intellectually and ideologically, and they gave up.
He said, “Let me start with the ADC. I have stopped thinking about them because we have had an engagement with them. They came to us before they went to ADC; they were to use the SDP. We had a robust conversation with them. They had no answer to 99 percent of our questions. And we said, thank you very much; carry whatever you’re carrying to the next bus stop. Here, you have not answered our questions correctly. We’re not dealing with you. It doesn’t mean that we don’t share the same objective with you that President Tinubu is not supposed to be there. And it would be a mistake for the country, even for him personally, and for any other person, to keep him beyond 2027. We agree with that. But, you haven’t answered our questions. So, go on and do your own business as well. So, having left us in peace and carried their activity to their own place, courtesy demands that I should leave them alone.
“Maybe, in the course of lecturing in the future, we may see some of them that are willing to answer the question of what is wrong with Nigerian politics. What is wrong with Nigerian politics is the ideology for getting to power. What is wrong with Nigerian politics is not the APC, as an alphabet or acronym; what is wrong is the philosophy of politics, ranging from the way you fund it to the way you arrange it, what you do when you get in there and the lack of ethics, which is the idea that no minimum ethics is required to be in politics.
“Secondly, every party is not the same. We are not the same as them. SDP and ADC, we are poles apart. We are not the same as them. And I’m not saying this because there’s a person I don’t like there. We have tried to engage them intellectually and ideologically and they gave up. They couldn’t answer the questions. So leave them alone.”
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