The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Adewole Adebayo has said that everyone joining the party already knows that he would be running for presidency in 2027.
Speaking on the Arise TV Morning Show on Friday, Adebayo said all those joining the SDP would have to sit back and learn the ropes of politics, the SDP way.
Recall that a former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai had dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to join the SDP on Monday, March 10.
El-Rufai noted that he defected from his former party due to a derail from the initial ideologies of the APC by its members and leaders.
Since his (El-Rufai) defection from APC, several of his supporters, especially from Kaduna State have also joined him at the SDP.
However, speaking on the TV show, Adebayo said heavyweight or not, everyone who joins the SDP already knows that he is a potential 2027 presidential candidate for the party.
He said, “I don’t worry about that, everybody who is coming in knows that I am going to run in 2027, even everyone in my party know that I am going to run. For some of the heavyweights coming, they are heavyweights in the media. You know it’s the media people who go and serve as their press secretary and all of that.
“So when the big man is joining my party, I am in my party… there is what we call seniority, here now, I am your guest, when you come to join my party, you’re coming to learn from us, the SDP way. You might have learnt politics elsewhere but you’re coming as an ordinary member and we are open; we are fair.
“We are not like UPN, where Awolowo would be Permanent presidential candidate and others can not join, no. You can join,” Adebayo noted.
