Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
Adewole Adebayo, the 2023 presidential candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), has tackled president Tinubu’s security chiefs, describing them as incompetent.
He said this at the 50th birthday celebration of his wife, Queen Lilian Adebayo, in a Abuja.
Adebayo said that Nigerians are not supposed to be surprised with the present economic situation because they knew that these present administrators don’t take governance serious.
“We knew this was how they would behave. What shocks me about Nigerians is that they are shocked about Tinubu because we knew that these people don’t take governance seriously.
“They take elections seriously, but not governance. The first duty of a president is to be commander-in-chief. The first order of business of government is national security, then the welfare of the people, justice, development and infrastructure. So it’s a disappointment.
“I personally do not like to politicize insecurity because when there is an act of insecurity, and you criticize the government, in a way that can encourage terrorists and other criminals to think that they can influence our politics by committing more atrocities. But in this case, the incompetence of President Tinubu and his security team speaks for itself.
Speaking on the president’s present trip out of the country, he said if the president is a serious-minded person ,he would have come home and address the issues. “The president should look at the security architecture of the country and look at governance with more seriousness”, Adebayo said.