Worry more about public resentment than political coalition- Adebayo tells Tinubu

The leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and 2023 presidential candidate of the party, Prince Adewole Adebayo has advised President Bola Tinubu to be more concerned about public resentment against his government rather than a political coalition.

Speaking with journalists recently, Adebayo stated that the President should focus more on governance and how to address the economic challenges facing the people, saying that the president is politically savvy enough to know that the coalition is not his problem.

He blamed President Tinubu for focusing on 2027 and abandoning governance, noting that what Nigerians have under Tinubu is not administration but presidency.

Adebay 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.

He 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.

The former SDP President candidate also picked holes in the student loan scheme, arguing that instead of the scheme, the Tinubu administration should have brought the cost of education down.

He stressed that an administration is only political to the extent of being politically sensitive while making decisions, lamenting that the government has not shown any signal that it is prepared to address the people’s problems.

Adebayo, however, commended President Tinubu for finding time to visit Katsina State to meet with soldiers fighting against insurgency and boost their morale.

He said: “The decision of the president to go to Katsina as commander-in-chief, to talk to the service chief and our men and women in uniform, gladdened my heart to no end. This is because that’s a time which ordinarily, President Tinubu that I know, would have been spent carousing with his political manipulators and thinking how to do some other things, but on that day, he went and saw the troops. He needs to follow up with the troops”.