SDP Warns Against Intimidation of its Presidential Candidate.
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) has warned against intimidation of its Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general elections, Prince Adewole Adebayo.
SDP Campaign Council Director General, , Barrister Solomon Dalung handed out the warning at a world press briefing held in Abuja on Friday.
He lamented that they are generating documents as well as trying to use the police to intimidate the SDP presidential Candidate through fake records of of alleged criminal issues.
Dalung further warned that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) should not in its desperation, truncate this transition. He therefore, urged Nigerians to elect credible candidates in 2023, stressing that the SDP boats of such, that can bring back prosperity to the country.
Speaking further, Dalung expressed reservations over some of the issues that are plaguing campaigns ahead of the 2023 polls. “It calls to question, the violent level that characterised the campaigns,” he added.
He decried the flagrant use of government paraphernalia for campaign for the APC candidates, therefore, narrowing the space of other contenders.
Dalung said that the use of government aircraft for campaign of the APC Presidential candidate is an abuse of power, adding that if such assets are provided for one candidate, same treatment should be accorded others.
The former Minister charged Presidential candidates of all political parties to embrace issue based campaigns, focusing on issues like security, poverty and those that are not in power should tell Nigerians what they will do.