2023: How I’ll Deal With Niger Delta – SDP Presidential Candidate

He said this on Tuesday in Abuja when he hosted the Leadership of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) who visited him on issues concerning the 2023 general elections.

According to him, the meeting is part of a conversation that will help Nigeria.

“The conversation has begun. It won’t end today because it involved PANDEF, Afenifere and the middle Belt. The unity of Nigeria is number one. There is no room for casting doubt on the continuity and unity of Nigeria.

“Not a single square meter of Nigeria will be taken away. Niger Delta has been a source of stupendous wealth but nothing can be cured without justice. I view Niger Delta people as Nigerians first. Let us leave the oil first. They are Nigerians. We are dealing with the Niger Delta in our government as human beings if we emerge,” Adebayo said.

He also said that the division will no longer be relevant because when a just man is on the throne, the people would rejoice.

He said, “You need a righteous man not Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba to be the next president. For this reason, I share the sympathy of the Middle Belt and Niger Delta. From region to region, from gender to gender, power should rotate. We will not look at ourselves from where we are coming from, we will give Nigerians the needed leadership.”

Speaking earlier, the National Publicity Secretary of the organization and chairman of the Delta State Chapter of PANDEF, Mr. Ken Robinson, said there is a presidential candidate they will never endorse.

According to him, it would be unfair and unjust if power still remains in the north after the expiration of Presidential Muhammadu Buhari’s eight years’ tenure.

“After eight years of the Buhari presidency, another will northerner want to retain power. Let me repeat to you, I was on TV after the PDP primaries. And there were speculations that the ticket of the APC is also likely to go North.

“In fact the national chairman said they have a consensus candidate in person for the Senate president. And I said that if the two major political parties present Northern candidates, it will be a declaration of war on Southern Nigeria.

“We are in a situation where an administration has operated a system as if others do not exist. There are 17 military, para-military and Intelligence security agencies in the country. At the last count, 14 of them are from the Northern part of the country, three from Southern Nigeria. There are six zones. So, even if you distribute two each to each region you still have five you can share the way you want.

“When the campaign starts, we will mobilise ourselves, speak to good Nigerians in Northern Nigeria and in Southern Nigeria why the next president of Nigeria should come from the Southern part of Nigeria,” he said.

He also said that the organisation would mobilise people in the creeks, in the farm lands to the streets across Nigeria to work together, especially that there are many people who don’t like what is going on.

Robinson said they are meeting with the presidential candidate to ensure that anyone that emerges governs well