A leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and its presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Adewole Adebayo, has described the SDP as a party of ideas and discipline that can only accommodate those who believe in its ideas.

He advised those who don’t agree with the party’s ideas not to bother joining the party because it would be counter-productive since party members have a set of ideas that they believe in.

“So, this discipline is what has kept our party. So, we enjoin anybody coming to join us to be law-abiding and do things according to good conscience and the rule of law.

“In our party, we use democratic methods. So, we do not use any desperate methods. We don’t give bribes to delegates. We don’t falsify delegates’ lists. We don’t do fractional primaries and all of that, so we agree on the ideology,” he said.

He also said that the SDP had been playing the politics of development and measurement, such that it has been proffering solutions to the numerous problems confronting the country, hoping that whenever President Bola Tinubu and his team decide to have a second thought, they would look at the solutions his party is proposing and start to adopt them.

Adebayo noted that just as Tinubu stole his campaign slogan in 2023, he would be happy if he could again steal his ideas now and use them to better the lives of Nigerians.

He said that their current suffering in the country was not by accident as he had raised the alarm about what would befall Nigerians if they did not vote for the SDP, but lamented that Nigerians ignored his advice.

The SDP chieftain, however, called on Nigerians to listen this time as the country prepares for another election in 2027 so that they could get out of the current quagmire.