2027: Tinubu only interested in enlarging political coast- Adebayo
The leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its 2023 presidential candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has said that President Bola Tinubu and his supporters were only interested in enlarging their political coast than addressing the needs of the people they govern.
Adebayo who said this while speaking with journalists recently, picked holes in the student loan programme, advising the President to bring the cost of education down for average Nigerian access to education without seeking loan.
“I don’t agree with them on their student loan, because all you need to do is bring the cost of education down, and an average person will be able to go to school without needing a loan. But even with the loan, they are not able to administer it properly. So anything they touch. The Tinubu Presidency is not a government. It may be a political movement that has now found itself in power. They can now decide to continue to strengthen themselves politically by capturing more governors, more senators and more political parties to join them, but they are not just in government. However, they can also decide to say, let’s sit down; let us stop this and administer the economy,” he said.
He also noted the President Tinubu and his team of economic experts have not been able to give Nigerians a workable budget for two years running.
Adebayo said the president had presented two annual budgets to Nigerians, lamenting that the last one was far worse than the first one.
He stressed that neither of the two budgets has been able to get a grip of anything.
“They have not been able to write a single good budget. They are reaching two budgets now and the only difference is that the one that came after is worse than the one before. They are not able to get a grip of anything. They are not doing well with employment. They need to know that the tool for dealing with poverty is employment,” he stated.
He stressed that an administration is only political to the extent of being politically sensitive while making decisions.
“Anybody who wants to be president, like me and others, must be prepared to give good governance to the people. If the person who is there; whom you want to defeat and take over from, is giving good governance, somehow you’ll be happy. But if he’s not giving good governance, you’ll be very angry and that is the situation we’ve seen. President Tinubu is just not giving good governance”, Adebayo added.
