The 2023 Social Democratic Party, SDP, presidential candidate, Adewole Adebayo, has taken a swipe at President Bola Tinubu, saying he is doing pretty well in politics but failing woefully in governance.
Adebayo, in an interview with the Vanguard, wondered how Tinubu would have a substantive legacy with his failure rate in governance.
According to him, the president has mastered the motivation and interest of the political class but does not know what Nigerians desire.
“You have to give President Tinubu an A1 in politics. The only problem he has with the A1 is that he tends to have F9 in governance.
“So how is he going to graduate into any substantive legacy? That is a problem because the A1 politics is that he knows the political class very well.
“He knows what moves and motivates them, and he knows how to recruit them, sometimes retrench them, retire them and reengage them because he knows what they want.
“He doesn’t need to have many people defecting to his party. If he cannot save lives in Benue, Plateau and many parts of the country, then he has failed,” Adebayo said.
The politician accused Tinubu of assuming that Nigerians were not interested in politics and that if he captured institutions and politicians, there would be no opposition parties left.
According to Adebayo, the real opposition would come from the electorate.
He warned those who want to turn career politicians to opposition, stressing that they were going to have a problem.
“Because it’s only when they are dropped off from the list of ministers, board appointments, that is the only time they remember that they need to make this noise so that they can be brought back,” he added.
