Why insecurity lingers in Nigeria – SDP Presidential candidate

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The Presidential flagbearer of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the 2023 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has given reasons the prevailing security situation in Nigeria has lingered for so long unabated.

Adebayo, who spoke yesterday in Abuja, alleged that a caucus inside the government profits financially from the menace and as such, they allow it to spread and linger so as to sustain their flow of income from it.

“There is a caucus inside the federal government that believes that insecurity is an opportunity to spend money and that if it expands, they will spend more money and collect allowances. He warned that by so doing, they are contributing more to the situation”, he stated.

Adebayo promised to deal with all manners of insecurity, demand for restructuring and all other forms of agitations if voted into office.

“According to him, the difference between Nigeria and other nations was the inability of the Nigerian government to take drastic measures against offenders to serve as a deterrent.

Speaking on what he has to offer Nigerians if elected into office, Adebayo stated that his purpose in politics is to do fewer politics and a lot of development. He regretted that Nigeria has drifted grossly as a result of the wrong people being voted into political offices. He, therefore, promised to identify with the people and use available resources to work for the growth and development of the country.

He noted that Nigerians are warm people blessed with favourable weather conditions but lacked good leadership.

“Many people do not know the purpose of government not because they are bad but because they were not trained in that direction. That is the reason the citizens have not enjoyed good governance. Government is about rendering common services and how to achieve collective goals. So, we want to change the conversation”, Adebayo stated.

Noting that although there are pockets of insecurity around the world, he, however, described that of Nigeria as annoying, embarrassing and very dangerous if not addressed.

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