INTERVIEW: Nigeria needs fresh leaders, not expired political elites – Adebayo

Ahead of the 2027 statesmanlike elections, a chieftain of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the party’s 2023 statesmanlike candidate, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has declared that what Nigeria needs are caller leaders with caller ideas connected however to bring the state retired of the woods and not old, clueless and expired governmental elites who person sunk the state into the existent economical quagmire.

In this interview, helium spoke astir the existent governmental concern successful the country, with peculiar notation to the defection of astir each the governors and a fistful of nationalist assembly lawmakers to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, among different nationalist issues. Excerpts!

The APC is retaining dominance successful the governance of the country, astatine slightest with the fig of governors successful its kitty. Is this not shrinking the absorption successful Nigeria, particularly arsenic we determination towards the 2027 wide election?

There is nary shrinking of absorption space. It each depends connected what you think, whether you deliberation ideology is astir nationalist bureau holders unsocial oregon astir politicians alone. The mode ideology is expected to enactment and that is however it is going to enactment successful Nigeria, is that it is the bulk sentiment oregon inclination among the Nigerian electorate that volition find the authorities of our ideology and the direct...