Presidential aspirant, Prince Adewole Adebayo, says the country has been starved of a people-oriented government since the return of democracy in 1999.
According to the legal practitioner, all the nation has had in over two decades is a group of friends contributing money to put someone in power.
He said the consequence is that assets of government is exclusive to this set of people and their personal business becomes that of the government.
Speaking in an interview on AIT, Adebayo said the priority of the leaders is how to enrich these people and not job creation.
“That’s why we see that as the years go by, the number of people employed is reducing, the number of people fully employed is also reducing. Nigerians are underemployed and under-compensated,“ he said.
“When you look at civil servants, they can’t afford to pay fees in government schools. You discover that in some states, civil servants haven’t been paid for 11 months while government-owned universities are asking students to pay around N400,000 to N1m per session”.
Adebayo, who uses the campaign slogan HopeforNigeria, however, advised Nigerians that their votes is their gateway to security, employment, poverty reduction among others.
“In the next election, the people should know that their votes is their gateway to employment, good roads, well-funded public institutions,” the media mogul who has vowed to end insecurity and poverty added.
On how the coalition of political parties intend to wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress and People’s Democratic Party in 2023, he said “we will aggregate the big issues like insecurity, poverty, unemployment and corruption. We will now hold conference along these issues and sponsor candidates”.
The leading member of the Steering Committee of the National Consultative Front added that is “what we intend to do. We want to make sure that once the political parties are united, the people will interrogate these issues and the same issues is what you put before the electorates.
“But when you have a cacophony of voices, the issues are not well placed and the people won’t know what particularly they are voting for”.
Adebayo had recently received the backing of two former military heads of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar and Ibrahim Babangida to run for president.
They both promised to support the 50-year-old achieve his ambition.
