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By Sunday Ani
Amid growing insecurity, the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general election, Adewole Adebayo, has reminded President Bola Tinubu that he has a constitutional duty to maintain law and order, and secure lives and property of Nigerians.
Adebayo said the president doesn’t need to blow his trumpet if, indeed, he has lived up to expectations, as his performance would be open for everyone to see.
He said if the testimony of his performance is true in Gboko, Zaki-Ibiam, Biu, Sokoto, Umuahia, and everywhere, the manifestation would have been everywhere by now.
According to him, the government has a duty to properly be in charge and mark things very well.
“However tense the economic situation may be, they should be able to keep law and order, if they really want to. However crazy the bandits in the forest might be, they should be able to keep order on the streets. However mischievous and evil the kidnappers might be, they should be seen that there is government presence. You don’t need your opponent to criticise you or your friends to applaud you.
“If the president is working very hard, people will see it. Even your opponent will say I don’t agree with him, but he’s working hard. So, whether you like the All Progressives Congress or detest Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, you will not ignore the red line (train) and say I am not going to take the train, or I cannot see the train. It is very obvious, you will see that he is working,” he said.
He reiterated that bad governance makes insecurity and poverty fester in the land, even as he advised Tinubu to return to chapter two of the constitution, which, according to him, is where all the solutions to the country’s problems lie.
“That is the map to greatness of Nigeria. So, if you are lost, that is the GPs, go back to that chapter two. If we follow it, many of these problems will be resolved. There will be unity and order in the country. That is why I keep talking to Nigerians about chapter two of the constitution. If you follow it, you will not have a bank manager or managing director that is earning one million times the earnings of a graduate in the bank.
“However much President Tinubu is trying, however wonderful his ministers are, I wish they would spend all that energy on actual priorities of what is ailing the country, poverty and insecurity; and try to create wealth for the people, through the people themselves. And they will try as much as possible to deal with the primary duties of government, which is to keep people safe, to keep people inspired, and to obey the law. The first duty of the government is to keep everyone safe.
“The next duty is to make the law work by the government itself obeying the law and showing example.”
