SDP
The Social Democratic Party, SDP on Thursday said some of the political parties which have kicked off campaign for the 2023 elections were renting crowds to deceive Nigerians that they had been accepted.
The party said that it would not be involved in renting crowds for campaign rallies during the electioneering period, and also declared that only a holistic restructuring of the country could solve the numerous challenges in Nigeria.
The national chairman of SDP, Shehu Gabam, stated these at a reception organised to celebrate two of its members who were recipients of the National Honours Awards conferred on them by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.
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The beneficiaries were the SDP governorship candidate of Delta State, Olorogun Keneth Gbagi and the governorship candidate of Kwara State, Prof. Wale Suleiman.
While Gbagi was awarded Order of the Niger (OON), Suleiman was honoured with the Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) award.
Gabam explained that elections were not about crowd renting, adding that the SDP would rather give priority to major issues affecting the country like insecurity, education, collapse of the health sector among others.
He assured Nigerians that the SDP would soon make public a complete list of members of its Presidential Campaign Council, saying the SDP “don’t want to be a copycat”
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Gabam said, “Elections are about issues, not about crowd renting. It is about dealing with major issues that affect Nigeria like the issue of insecurity, education, assistance, the collapse of the health sector. So we are dealing with issues first before renting crowd, because basically, politics are about renting the crowd.
“As a party, we are strategic in our operations. We’ll be dealing with strategic issues that affect every one of us. We will unveil our campaign council very soon.
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