Nigeria needs solution-driven and honrst leadership

‘Honesty is difficult for those who are doing things wrongly’… Adewole Adebayo.

Emmanuel Alfred

The Presidential Aspirant of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prince Adewole Adebayo says that Nigeria has moved past the era of leaders who put blame on former leaders rather than finding solutions to problems.

He made this known in a chat with newsmen on the State of the Nation as he also explained how he is going to fix some of Nigeria’s problems once he is elected into office in the 2023 polls.

‘I intend to run a government where we tax our brains and find solutions to the issues bedeviling our nation. I know that some questions are to be asked on how the previous Government made policies and handled out finances but Nigerians want a leader who will take time to identify problems and try to solve them’. Prince Adebayo said.

On the issue of refineries and the ever increasing prices of petroleum products, he said that the four refineries in Nigeria at the moment cannot produce enough to meet our needs. We need to encourage more private sector involvement in owning and running refineries.

‘The fact that the privately owned refinery in Lagos has more productive capacity that the Government refineries shows that the functionality of refineries is not rocket science’. He added

On the issue of honesty, the legal luminary stressed that he will run a Government that is built on honesty as he will bring back the integrity of the Nigeria Bureau of Statistics where accurate data will uploaded on the site as that will bring back public trust in the Government.

Decrying Nigeria’s over-dependence on oil, he vowed that petroleum under his government won’t be the sole source of revenue.

“Nigeria makes about 20m dollars from ginger. Even in a good year, we don’t gross up to 120m dollars a year.

“If only we invest a little more to squeeze our ginger and get ginger oil, we will be making 1.4b dollars from ginger oil.

“If you go into the value chain of some of the produce, you will see that petroleum isn’t a big deal.