Adewole Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) presidential candidate in 2023, says the opposition party is not planning to merge with the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of 2027 elections.
Adebayo spoke in Abeokuta, Ogun state capital, on Saturday during a meeting with the party’s state executive members.
Solomon Dalung, a former sports minister, and SDP chairmen in Ogun, Oyo, Lagos, among others, were in attendance.
The former SDP presidential candidate said that the party is dedicated to the welfare and well-being of all Nigerians and condemned any suggestion that it is an APC appendage.
“Maybe APC has appendicitis, they should go to the hospital to kill it,” he said.
‘We are a strong party. We are older than any of the parties available. Our mission is clear: we are not in government with them.
“I led the party in the last election. I’m still standing here. I’m not a minister under Tinubu, all the state Chairmen and the national chairman are intact, national secretary. So, we are standing on our own.
“The reason people look down on us is because we don’t attack people to tackle issues, because our party is a party of intellect.
“We are the only party that’s a little to the left. Having been a little to the left since we came in 1989 we remain so.
“The problems of Nigeria can only be found with solutions on the left, which is that chapter two of the Constitution, invest money in education, in housing, in healthcare, good infrastructure, let Nigerians live what chief Obafemi Awolowo called a life more abundant.”
He said while the SDP is open to sincere applicants, it was closed to those with dubious morals.
