The Presidential Candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Prince Adebayo Adewole, has cautioned social media users chalice of words to use in a desperate efforts to gain favor from politicians, especially those aspiring for a political offices.
Adewole was speaking on the backdrop of some group of persons claiming to have conducted a presidential polls via social media and had also placed some candidates ahead of others even when Nigerians was yet to go to the poll to decide the faith of who rule them.
The legal luminary condemned such an act, calling for a restraints saying that Anyone can do social media polls and purposefully omit whichever candidate to suit their desperate urged.
When asked about his thoughts on the social media polls conducted to gauge each party’s chances in the 2023 general elections, Prince Adebayo responded as follows.
“Our Party runs issue-based campaigns rather than campaigns focused on trivial matters. In Nigeria, we are accustomed to seeing hired audiences turn out for campaigns, but because of the strong bonds we have built with the people, they warm up to us despite our lack of financial backing.
“Some of the inquiries made on social media are not framed to address the problems at hand.” He spoke.
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) norms specify that no candidate should spend more than five billion Naira, yet politicians often violate them with impunity, he continued.
The vast majority of expensive campaigns are carried out with enormous sums of money that were undoubtedly obtained illegally, and the majority of them do not address issues and how they effect the general public.
“As members of the SDP, we firmly believe that the Party belongs to the people, and we work to educate voters on topics like budgetary balance, security, housing, and education, among others.
“That is why we are very confident that we will win the elections because we empower the citizens to collect the Permanent Voter Cards(PVCs) and also let them know the issues that should influence their choice of candidates.”
