I Have Faith in SDP – IBB ….Drums Support for the Party

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday
said that he has faith in the Chief Olu Falae led Social Democratic
Party (SDP) and what it stands for.
Speaking in Minna over the weekend when the National Leadership of
the Party, led by its Natiional Chairman, Chief Olu Falae visited
him at his hill-top mansion in Minna, Babangida said that the Party
is real and smart with the zeal to deliver democratic dividends to
the people.

“If I hadn’t being too old, I would have loved to join the
youths vanguard of your party. I have faith in the political party,
for what it is and what it stand for. When I heard in the news that
a party has come on board, the first thing that occurred to me was
that the name sound familiar, so I made a decision that I will wait
and see how it plays out, I was looking at how SDP will populate
itself. And then the next pleasing thing that I heard was that it
has people like Olu Falae, Professor Jerry Gana, Professor
Adeniran.

“After that I said this party is real, because most of the names
are names that I have known and I have worked with and for the sake
of this country, so I said the party is smart to convinced all
these gentlemen to come and join them. That is why I did not
hesitate to give direction to those who came me to seek advice on
which direction to go.”

Babangida pointed out that the vision he had for the country is
the same vision that is shared by those driving the party, adding
that, “the security and well being of Nigerians is very important
and you have identified this in your programme so Nigerians must
rally round you and support you to ensure that this is
realizable”.
Babangida urged the younger generation and women to give their
support to SDP as it is “populated by men of integrity, men who
when they work, they work well, when they speak, they speak
well.”

Babangida then advised the leadership of the party to make it
manifestos public to Nigerians so that they can be hold
accountable, “You must tell Nigerians what you intend to do for
them because this is very important. The people must know if we
vote SDP what do we expect so that it become politics of issues not
politics of insult and name calling”.

In his address earlier, the National Chairman of the Party,
Chief Olu Falae said that they were in the state to see General
Babangida as part of the Party’s nationwide consultation to brief
him on the activities of the party and to solicit for his support
and wise counseling.

Falae said that SDP is a child of necessity, born out of the
desire to rescue the country from the present decay in every sphere
of lives, “When I was approached to accept all the Progressives who
have been frustrated from different political parties to come
together to form a formidable team to rescue Nigeria, I readily
agreed because this country must be rescued from the present state
of corruption and inpunity.”

Falae lamented that the situation of the nation is becoming
worse and needs to be addressed adding that the Fulani herdsmen
menace needs to be immediately addressed.
“Since this present government came on board, the Herdsmen seems to
think that they now own Nigeria, and it is a lie, there arms must
be taken away from them, their minds must be disabused and while
doing that, provision must be made for them to be able to do their
business legitimately so that the rest of us can also do our
farming business as well because both agriculture and animal
husbandry are good to the country economy.

“Nigeria as a country is passing through a terrible time, the
present government talks about fighting corruption all the time but
corruption today is worst than it was in the immediate past. “

He gave the assurance that when SDP takes over the government in
2019, they will reduce corruption to the nearest minimum,
“Corruption can be fought if we the leaders genuinely embrace
transparency not what we are seeing today.”

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida on Sunday
said that he has faith in the Chief Olu Falae led Social Democratic
Party (SDP) and what it stands for.
Speaking in Minna over the weekend when the National Leadership of
the Party, led by its Natiional Chairman, Chief Olu Falae visited
him at his hill-top mansion in Minna, Babangida said that the Party
is real and smart with the zeal to deliver democratic dividends to
the people.

“If I hadn’t being too old, I would have loved to join the
youths vanguard of your party. I have faith in the political party,
for what it is and what it stand for. When I heard in the news that
a party has come on board, the first thing that occurred to me was
that the name sound familiar, so I made a decision that I will wait
and see how it plays out, I was looking at how SDP will populate
itself. And then the next pleasing thing that I heard was that it
has people like Olu Falae, Professor Jerry Gana, Professor
Adeniran.

“After that I said this party is real, because most of the names
are names that I have known and I have worked with and for the sake
of this country, so I said the party is smart to convinced all
these gentlemen to come and join them. That is why I did not
hesitate to give direction to those who came me to seek advice on
which direction to go.”

Babangida pointed out that the vision he had for the country is
the same vision that is shared by those driving the party, adding
that, “the security and well being of Nigerians is very important
and you have identified this in your programme so Nigerians must
rally round you and support you to ensure that this is
realizable”.
Babangida urged the younger generation and women to give their
support to SDP as it is “populated by men of integrity, men who
when they work, they work well, when they speak, they speak
well.”

Babangida then advised the leadership of the party to make it
manifestos public to Nigerians so that they can be hold
accountable, “You must tell Nigerians what you intend to do for
them because this is very important. The people must know if we
vote SDP what do we expect so that it become politics of issues not
politics of insult and name calling”.

In his address earlier, the National Chairman of the Party,
Chief Olu Falae said that they were in the state to see General
Babangida as part of the Party’s nationwide consultation to brief
him on the activities of the party and to solicit for his support
and wise counseling.

Falae said that SDP is a child of necessity, born out of the
desire to rescue the country from the present decay in every sphere
of lives, “When I was approached to accept all the Progressives who
have been frustrated from different political parties to come
together to form a formidable team to rescue Nigeria, I readily
agreed because this country must be rescued from the present state
of corruption and inpunity.”

Falae lamented that the situation of the nation is becoming
worse and needs to be addressed adding that the Fulani herdsmen
menace needs to be immediately addressed.
“Since this present government came on board, the Herdsmen seems to
think that they now own Nigeria, and it is a lie, there arms must
be taken away from them, their minds must be disabused and while
doing that, provision must be made for them to be able to do their
business legitimately so that the rest of us can also do our
farming business as well because both agriculture and animal
husbandry are good to the country economy.

“Nigeria as a country is passing through a terrible time, the
present government talks about fighting corruption all the time but
corruption today is worst than it was in the immediate past. “

He gave the assurance that when SDP takes over the government in
2019, they will reduce corruption to the nearest minimum,
“Corruption can be fought if we the leaders genuinely embrace
transparency not what we are seeing today.”