{"id":98651,"date":"2022-08-26T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=98651"},"modified":"2022-08-26T22:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:50:56","slug":"how-caucuses-in-government-working-against-ending-insecurity-sdp-presidential-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/how-caucuses-in-government-working-against-ending-insecurity-sdp-presidential-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"How caucuses in government working against ending insecurity, SDP Presidential candidate\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has alleged the presence of a caucus in government against the successful termination of insecurity in the country because its members benefit from it.<\/div>\n
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Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, he observed there is a convergence of interest between those causing insecurity and those in charge of solving the problem.<\/div>\n
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He explained that insecurity is one of the five problems confronting the country, for which he had got a plan on how to put it to an end if elected.<\/div>\n
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According to him, insecurity \u201cis the most embarrassing, the most annoying, and it is the most dangerous if we don\u2019t deal with it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The presidential candidate analyzed the different shapes of\u00a0 insecurity in the country, saying that \u201cat the same time that that is happening, there\u2019s a caucus inside the Nigerian government that believes that insecurity is an opportunity to spend money.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAnd that if insecurity expands, you spend money on internal security. So, you go around the country you see purely theatrical checkpoints where you can say \u2018I deployed 200,000 men\u2019 even though all the men under you are not up to 20,000.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, you collect all the money, the feeding allowance and all of that. May be they will think, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m not killing anybody\u2019 but by allowing the insecurity to extend in order for such steady income to extend, they are actually contributing more to the problem than they are solving it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Adebayo observed that the \u201cartificial poverty were are experiencing in the country is because a lot o our resources\u2026the government is pretending, I don\u2019t think the government can be that powerless, the government is pretending that they have no control over our maritime assets.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, ships, heavy ships run by international companies that are well known that have home governments, come to our lands and take millions in barrels of crude oil.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, at a time when our currency is supposed to be very strong, when oil price is up, we don\u2019t have any income.<\/div>\n
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\u201cThose are the areas I\u2019ll deal with. How am going to deal with them is to ensure that when am going to the State House, you don\u2019t bring special interests and people who don\u2019t have loyalty to the country into your government because that\u2019s where the problem lies.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBecause the way the system has been working from my observation since 1999 to a certain varying degree, somehow, the permanent government doesn\u2019t change. If the tenure of a president expires, he goes\u2026whether he loses or wins, whoever comes in, the permanent interest remains the same in the State House.<\/div>\n
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\u201cAnd the presidency is designed to work against the president. The essence of the presidency is to limit access to the president, to limit information to the president, to limit his scope of action.<\/div>\n
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\u201cSo, before we even go into the presidency at all, all the 5,000 appointments that we need to make, we are thinking about people whether they are involved in our politics or not who we know, who we are interacting with, we know that these people have genuine concern for the country, they are experts in the aspects that we are dealing with whether it\u2019s tackling terrorism, whether it\u2019s tackling kidnapping, any of these areas.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI must say that I don\u2019t have much worries about handling these issues because 80 to 90 percent of the time, the solutions are obvious. But the special interests must exhaust the budget.<\/div>\n
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\u201cBecause how do you have a department that could spend $30,000 and solve a problem but you have a budget of $3 million? Are they going to solve the problem with $30,000 and return the rest of the money?<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhat happens to all the wives and families traveling to Dubai, all the houses people are buying around the world? So, those are the things that make it look like as formidable as our Armed Forces are, they look like they can\u2019t handle this problem.<\/div>\n
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\u201cIt looks like there\u2019s a convergence of interest between those who are causing insecurity and those who are in charge of it.\u201d<\/div>\n
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The SDP presidential candidate said his administration will behave differently to solve the nation\u2019s problems, including declaring his assets before the election.<\/div>\n
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According to him, \u201cIf am going to make a difference, I must immediately stop almost everything that people are doing already and I must stop everything that they are doing badly.<\/div>\n
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\u201cFirst, before even the election, if you are going to deal with transparency, a good presidential candidate must first disclose his assets for scrutiny. You don\u2019t wait until you have won the election because that time is too late. You will go and give it to one quiet agency that will say due to legal reasons, we cannot release it.<\/div>\n
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\u201cI think that it\u2019s a challenge. I had that understanding with SERAP and SERAP put up the challenge to all the presidential candidates that Prince Adebayo says \u2018all of us should disclose our assets publicly so that the public can know who we are, how we came to where we are now and all of that.\u2019<\/div>\n
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\u201cI waiting for the time. Nobody apart from (Omoyele) Sowore has accepted. The others are absent. So, am thinking that I\u2019ll wait till around October 1 or thereabout. If nobody comes up, then we will invite the media and do that disclosure.\u201d<\/div>\n
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On the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), he said he will severe the relationship between the federal government and tertiary institutions by making them accountable to their governing councils.<\/div>\n
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\u201cYou don\u2019t need the federal government to control the universities,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n
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