By Augustine Akhilomen
…Says SDP Will Produce The Next President
Former presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Adewole Adebayo, has declared that President Bola Tinubu will be defeated in the 2027 general elections.
He made the assertion on Friday during an interview on Arise TV Morning Show programme, where he also described the defection of former Kaduna State governor, Nasri El-Rufai from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Social Democratic Party.
Adebayo also claimed that his party SDP will produce the next Nigerian President.
He said: “The reason why I welcome El-Rufai to my party is that I see him as a patriotic Nigerian, hard working, very effective in an area where we don’t have effective people in government, that’s all.
“Tinubu is going to be removed from power, that one is sure, and there will be an SDP president.
As a coalition and all of that, it is not inside our party. Maybe it’s people that are having discussion outside, and after having their discussion, they feel that they can come to the SDP and try to work within the SDP. But in SDP, we are following our program as before.
“We knew that when they were ganging up and going to Chatham House they will not last. We knew that when they started sharing the spoil of office, they will be scattered. We knew that the programs that all of them had will not work for the people out there, they will lose popularity.
“So we started preparing our party. We have no crisis and started managing our party. When they were offering position we didn’t want to join them. We remained where we are, keep talking to the people. Many more will join us as the year goes by”.