Legal luminary and frontline Presidential aspirant, Prince Adewole Adebayo has counselled Nigerians to look beyond the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) in choosing the next President of Nigeria during the 2023 elections.
Adebayo, a media mogul who is the Founder of King Adebayo Film and Theatre Arts Network Television (KAFTAN TV), gave the charge in Abuja when he formally declared his intention to contest the 2023 Presidential election
The Ondo state born politician said the two dominant political parties that have ruled Nigeria since 1999 lacked the capacity to provide enduring solutions to the challenges confronting the country.
Adebayo recalled the narratives that brought President Muhammadu Buhari to power in 2015, adding that they were mere propaganda designed to deceive the electorate.
According to him, the political elite presented Buhari as a messiah and a no nonsense personality who would jail everybody if he learnt that a penny of public fund was missing.
Adebayo said that with the poor performance of Buharri’s regime in the last six and half years, it has become evident that those images painted of him were far from the reality.
He described Buhari as the last card of the political elite who have been running Nigeria, adding that it was time for the electorate to choose between politicians with big money and those with big ideas that could transform Nigeria.
Adebayo who is seeking the highest office in the land on the platform of a coalition of political parties called the Third Force, said his aspiration was borne out of the genuine desire to do something positive about the current deplorable state of the nation.
“We are all aware of the state of our country and the clock of transition that is ticking towards 2023. We have many platforms on which our multi party democracy allows us to push solutions to the problem of the country.
“And you would have noticed that Nigerians are becoming impatient and rightfully tired of the journey that we began in 1999, which is supposed to take us to civil rule, democracy and development.
“It appears as if this journey is taking too long to get to where we need to go. And the vehicle of State appears to be stuck and it appears also recently that the wheels are coming off.
“Compatriots are coming from different angles, some have resorted to prayers, some have resorted to protest, some have resigned to fate and many are saying we need to provide a new leadership.
“So, my coming out to seek the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is one such termed to provide a new platform on which we can build on the promise contained in our constitution and for which our forefathers got independence and for which many, many citizens are losing their lives now,” Adebayo said.
He noted that the Nigeria Armed Forces have been fighting a counter insurgency war for a decade, stressing that bad governance was at the root of the insecurity across the country..