The Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate, Adewole Adebayo, has promised to reduce the rate of poverty in Nigeria and provide more opportunities for the youth when elected.
Adebayo, who was represented by his vice presidential candidate, Yusuf Buhari, said this during a visit to the Ogunsua of Modakeke of Ile Ife, Oba Joseph Olubiyi Ajibise Ogo 1.
According to a statement by the Adebayo Presidential Campaign Organisation in Abuja, he said that the SDP was inspired by Chapter 2 of the 1999 Constitution which states that sovereignty belongs to the people.
He said that the leadership was therefore set up by the people and its job is to look out for the welfare of the people.
He said one of the major problems facing the country was poverty all over the place in spite of its abundant blessings of material and human resources.
Adebayo said that in certain parts of the country, some people have no food to eat to the extent of picking the leftover in the dustbins to feed their children.
If you go around some areas at night, you’ll see some people sleeping everywhere on the streets, no shelter.
“If you go to the hospitals, patients are all over on the floor, no bed, only one doctor with thousands of patients.
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