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2027: ‘APC Will Come Last,’ Adebayo Vows to Defeat Tinubu

From Vanguard · () English

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  • SDP presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo said President Bola Tinubu was beatable and predicted that the ruling APC would finish last in Nigeria’s 2027 election.
  • Adebayo urged voters to reject inducements and focus on poverty and insecurity, which he said would determine the result.
  • He also said Nigeria could feed Africa within three years with greater investment in agriculture and criticized conventional views of fuel subsidies.

Adewole Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, says President Bola Tinubu can be defeated in Nigeria’s 2027 election. He predicts that the ruling All Progressives Congress will finish last.

Those people are insulting Nigerians. You cannot be in government if Nigerians vote against you. My job is to talk to Nigerian people. We say enough is enough to poverty and insecurity. We believe in it, we vote for it. APC will come last because we will have to count how many thumbprints you get.

· Adewole AdebayoAdebayo argued that Nigerian voters, rather than political assumptions, would decide the election.

Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, Adebayo said anyone who regarded Tinubu and the APC as unbeatable was underestimating Nigerian voters. The result, he said, would depend on the votes cast by the electorate.

“Those people are insulting Nigerians. You cannot be in government if Nigerians vote against you,” Adebayo said. He urged voters to reject rice and cash inducements and concentrate instead on poverty and insecurity. He argued that Nigerians could not afford four more years of the same conditions.

If people are not collecting rice and money from them, if you focus on what you need to save this generation from perpetual poverty and insecurity, realising that we cannot afford four more years of this same thing because our generation has been stressed to the eyeballs, we will win by God's grace.

· Adewole AdebayoHe said voters could reject inducements and support his campaign.

Adebayo said Nigeria had enough agricultural potential to become a major food supplier across Africa, but claimed the sector had not received adequate investment. “We are a nation that has the capacity to feed the whole of Africa within a period of three years. There is no investment in agriculture,” he said.

We are a nation that has the capacity to feed the whole of Africa within a period of three years. There is no investment in agriculture.

· Adewole AdebayoHe outlined his agricultural policy argument.

He also challenged conventional descriptions of fuel subsidies. “Subsidy is an account in government. Subsidy is not petrol. Subsidy will fail anytime you have no control over the supply,” he said. His remarks add to his recent criticism of the Tinubu administration as the 2027 presidential contest gathers momentum.

Subsidy is an account in government. Subsidy is not petrol. Subsidy will fail anytime you have no control over the supply.

· Adewole AdebayoHe challenged conventional explanations of fuel subsidy.
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