Prince Adebayo promises to eradicate poverty in 18 months
Emmanuel Alfred
The Presidential Aspirant of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo says he needs just a maximum of eighteen months to kick out poverty from the country and boost economic growth if elected President of Nigeria.
He made this bold statement on Saturday, September 10, 2022 when addressing journalists, stressing that competence, courage and character are the qualities every leader needs and these qualities would help rebuild the country and restore hope to hopeless Nigerians.
“I have a plan to create 30 million jobs and tackle poverty in Nigeria within 18 months. When people have jobs and have quality education, the middle class will be created which will in turn solve the problem of poverty”. He said
Prince Adebayo believes that a leadership bereft of honesty and purpose will always make policies that will be detrimental to the populace and he is the one person with the capacity to bring the country out of the woods.
On the security situation in the country, he said, “What we call security problem in Nigeria is the regular day-to-day problem which is characterized by skirmishes from bandits. Any problem that AK47 can solve is not a problem. The Government is not just serious enough to attend to the problem because the Nigerian Army is using only two per cent of its attention on Boko Haram because they have seen that it is not the priority of the Government”.
On his antecedents in politics, Adebayo said he does not need to occupy any elective position in the past to learn the ropes of good governance, saying the winner of the 1993 election, late Chief MKO Abiola never occupied any elective position before providing electoral victory for the party.
‘’Your antecedents in politics is not as important as your antecedent in personal life,’’ Adebayo said, adding that “those that have experience about governance in the country have negative experience that must not be sustained because it is anchored in retrogression.’’
