Presidential aspirant, Prince Adewole Adebayo, says he would potentially set up a people-oriented government that will find solutions to the country’s challenges.
Adebayo made this known on Saturday in an address to the nation on his presidential ambition.
Recall that the media mogul and legal practitioner had earlier this month declared his intention to run for president.
With the slogan, HopeforNigeria, Adebayo hopes to buck the trend with a Third Force, ultimately breaking the All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party’s duopoly.
And Adebayo says if he wins, he will set up a government of the people which will focus on looking after the affairs of the common man, paying attention to public duty and organising Nigerians as one united Workforce to find solutions to the country’s challenges.
He added that the nation’s challenges are insignificant compared to other countries.
According to Adebayo, everything that the country needs to succeed is in the Constitution while resources to excel are already embedded in the soil.
Adebayo, however, urged other Nigerians to volunteer for higher and public duties.
Read full address below:
My name is Adewole Adebayo. I’m a Nigerian from Ondo State. I’m a lawyer. I am a candidate for the presidency of Nigeria in the forthcoming 2023 elections.
I became 50 two weeks ago, January 8 precisely. My concern for Nigeria and the future of the country and the citizens of our country and the total failure of leadership and the dilemma presented by the two ruling parties, the APC and PDP account for why. I think it has become an incumbent duty for ordinary Nigerians like me who have managed to be successful in their private lives to consider putting an end to working for themselves, looking after themselves but now coming out to look after our commonwealth.
I have volunteered myself and I do hope that others will do likewise for higher duties and public duties. I want everyone to consider one way or the other by which we can come together to proffer leadership for this country right from our communities to states to the federation.
So that’s why I am volunteering to you that I want to be president of Nigeria to address the issues at hand. Nigeria is like our common home and it’s presently on fire. Everyone has to volunteer, everyone has to apply themselves and I pray and hope that in the ensuing conversation, we will understand the problems better and share perspectives on how to contribute to a people’s government that comes from the people and caters for the need of the people.
Everything we need to succeed in Nigeria is already enshrined in the constitution. Every resource we need to excel is already embedded in the soil of this country in the atmosphere around us in our cultural content and intellectual capital that we all as Nigerians have individually and collectively.
We should look at leadership not as something that comes from the skies but as an attitude we develop when we start to look outside ourselves to offer help in our neighbourhood, finding solutions to common problems and sustaining a system where we aggregate competence to attend to problems. None of the problems in Nigeria is bigger than what we can handle. The issue facing us is that we assume that we have a government when we do not. We assume that the mere presence of politicians on the scene and the mere existence of incumbents holding public offices means that those things amount to a government. They don’t.
My responsibility is to demonstrate to Nigerians during this campaign and if we win in the government I am going to set up what the government of the people looks like when the focus is on looking after the affairs of the common man, paying attention to public duty and organising our people as one united workforce to find solutions to the challenges we face.
These challenges peel to insignificance compared to challenges other countries have to face. We shouldn’t assume that we are overwhelmed by our problems. We should be underwhelmed by our lack of preparation.
