SDP Won’t Allow El-Rufai Hijack Party In His Fight Against President Tinubu – Adebayo

By Akinwale Kasali

“SDP not a get-away car for conspiracy and robbery”

Adewole Adebayo, Social Democratic Party, SDP, Presidential Candidate in the 2023 Elections, have stated that former Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, and other opposition leaders are planning to hijack the Party in their personal fight against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. But he has a warning for them: “They will not be allowed to use the party to fight Tinubu.”

Regardless of their plans and plot, they cannot hijack the Party for personal vendetta with the President, he said.

Adebayo made this known during the 50th birthday celebration of his wife, Queen Lillian Adebayo in Abuja.

He said that the SDP is not a “getaway car for a conspiracy and robbery”.

Ever since El-Rufai dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, a party he was a founding member, he has pitched tent with SDP, but Adebayo is stating that his plot to hijack the Party won’t work.

However, Adebayo who said he was still in the race for the 2027 Presidential seat, maintained that SDP is not a platform for personal political battles.

“Of course, my party knows that I’m running for the 2027 election. As for the coalition, we are listening to them. We don’t want to be a getaway car for a conspiracy and robbery we did not plan. That’s not available.

“If the coalition is for the Nigerian people, the SDP is available. But if it is just a crime centre for disappointed Tinubu followers, they should go back to him and resolve their differences there. Don’t come to SDP to borrow us for a fight we are not involved in,” he said.

On the killings in Benue, Plateau and some other parts of the country, Adebayo urged the President to re-strategise the security architecture to address insecurity in the country.