The PDP was in power before losing to the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2015, after what many Nigerians have described as 16 years of failure.
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (PDP) Adebayo Adewole says the Labour Party is not different from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The PDP was in power before losing to the ruling All Progressives Congress in 2015, after what many Nigerians have described as 16 years of failure.
Meanwhile, the APC has also failed Nigerians, plunging the country to arguably its worst economic crisis, raising the stakes ahead of the next general elections, which experts have said may lead to a major reform or a massive collapse of the country.
During an interview on Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, which was monitored by SaharaReporters, Adewole said the Labour Party and the PDP are not different.
Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi left the PDP in May 2022.
Obi was the 2019 vice presidential candidate of the PDP.
“Labour Party is now a branch of the PDP,” Adewole said, while noting that his party earlier pushed for a merger with LP and other parties.
“We wanted to merge with the PRP and Labour Party when it was Labour Party.”
The SDP presidential candidate also promised to abolish poverty if he is elected in 2023.
“We can abolish poverty within two budgets,” he said, linking it to hunger, and lack of basic needs.
“Why are people poor? People are not poor because they don’t have billions in their accounts. People are poor because when they wake up in the morning, they can’t have good food or food at all.
“They don’t have good housing or access to medical care and education. Tell me, which of these components cannot be made available in two years?”