Don’t Blow Your Trumpet on Performance, Adebayo Tells Tinubu

A former presidential flag bearer of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general election, Prince Adewole Ebenezer Adebayo, has said President Bola Tinubu doesn’t need to blow his trumpet if indeed he has lived up to expectations as his performance would self evidenced for everyone to see. 

Adebayo noted that if the testimony of his performance is as 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 and 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 you want to keep law.

“However crazy the bandits in the forest might be, they should be able to keep one 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 criticize 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, you can either like APC or detest Governor Babajide Sanw-Olu, you will not ignore the red line (train) and say, I am not going to take the train or I can’t see the train. It is very obvious,  you will see that he is working,” he stated.

Adebayo said bad governance makes insecurity and poverty fester further in the land even as he advised Tinubu to return to the chapter 2 of the constitution, as according to him, that is where all the solutions to the country lies. 

“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 in the country, there will be order in the country. 

“That’s why I keep talking to Nigerians about the chapter 2 of the constitution. If you follow it, you will not have a bank manager or MD that is earning one million times the earning 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 government is to keep everyone safe. The next duty is to make the law work by the government itself obeying the law and show example that if you don’t, this is the consequence,” he said.