2023

You Can’t Intimidate Our Presidential Candidate, SDP Warns APC, Security Agencies

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Social Democratic Party (SDP) has decried attempts at intimidating its Presidential Candidate as the ongoing 2023 general electioneering campaign progresses, saying that all trumped up records of criminal allegations against its presidential flagbearer, Prince Adewole Adebayo, would all fail.

Nigeria’s former sports minister and the SDP Presidential Campaign Council’s Director General, Barrister Solomon Dalung, who spoke at a world press briefing held in Abuja on Friday lamented that documents were being generated, even as the police is planned to be used to intimidate its presidential candidate.

Barrister Dalung then warned the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) not to truncate the 2023 transition precess as a result of its desperation to retain power.

He, therefore, urged Nigerians to elect credible candidates in 2023, stressing that the SDP boasts of candidates that can bring back prosperity to the country.

Speaking further, Dalung expressed reservations over certain issues plaguing ongoing campaigns ahead of the 2023 general elections.

“It calls to question, the violent level that characterised the campaigns,” he added.

He decried the flagrant use of government paraphernalia of office for campaign by the ruling APC candidates, therefore, narrowing the space against other contenders.

Dalung said that the use of government aircraft for APC Presidential campaigns by its candidate is an abuse of power, adding that if such assets are provided for one candidate, same treatment should be accorded others.

Dalung then charged Presidential candidates of all political parties to embrace issue-based campaigns, focusing on national challenges bothering on security, poverty and the likes, adding that candidates who are not in power should be able to tell Nigerians what they will do if elected.

On SDP campaign trend, he explained that the party has been moving from state to another and responsibly canvassing for votes.

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James Ezema

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