Ibekimi Oriamaja Reports
AUGELLI — Prince Adewole Adebayo, the Social Democratic Party’s (SDP) presidential candidate for the general election of 2023, claimed that the Niger Delta’s state governors were complicit in the theft of 80% of the nation’s crude oil and that the party was working to put an end to the region’s nightmares.
Adebayo told reporters after launching the SDP Campaign Office in the Delta State community of Egborode, close to Warri, that the Niger Delta’s residents were stealing resources and that the liberation of Nigeria must begin there.
“As I’m talking to you, there are people stealing oil worth billions of dollars,” Adebayo remarked, flanked by the party’s nominee for governor in the state, Olorogun Kenneth Gbagi. I’m not referring to historical injustice, but rather ongoing plunder.
“I have been screaming for the past five months that 80% of our crude oil is being stolen. I’m shouting, why? I’m shouting because the Niger Delta governors who go to the Federal Executive Council and Federal Allocation Committee and return to tell you that NNPC has no money but the governors have wads of cash in their offices are the ones stealing the money that could turn every city in Nigeria into a Dubai with their complicity and complacent silence.
Therefore, they are plundering the poor and stealing the wealth. What sort of justice are you referring to then:? As I speak, the Nigerian government has the ability to decide whether or not to halt the theft of $4.4 billion this month.
“The issues facing Nigeria are not natural, external, or structural. The issue is with the government itself because it has grown heartless and people in it are making money off of everything that makes you scream, gnash your teeth, and shed tears.
“All the issues, including the economic crisis and sense of insecurity, are too numerous to define specifically. Your currency is disappearing into digits because government employees are taking money, regardless of the country. Thus, we will get rid of the thieves as soon as we enter. You must employ moral individuals to run the government.
“What is expected of the SDP is to create a pathway for Nigerians, who, as you can see from the President himself to the average man seems to be at a loss as to why the country is at a crossroads,” the statement continued.
“The SDP’s job is to find a way to give the nation hope that is grounded in plans and find solutions to the problem of insecurity, poverty, and backwardness and to give the people a sense of unity of purpose, so that we can start the journey that we were supposed to start 30 years ago when we said goodbye to poverty,” says SDP.
