ACCORDING to Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate Adewole Adebayo, if Nigeria’s police force was effective, half of the government would be imprisoned.
He made this comment during the second series of presidential town hall meetings, which ARISE TV and the Centre for Democracy and Development jointly organized (CDD).
Adebayo said, “Let’s not run away from forming a government. At the federal level, there’s an assisting constitution I’m going to swear in on May 29. In that constitution, it has all it takes to eliminate crime.
“And the two steps to take to eliminate crime is to eliminate crime within government. That is the hardest thing to do in Nigeria.
“One of the reasons why we don’t have an efficient police system is that if we had an efficient police system, half of those who are in government will be in jail.
“So, it’s not in the interest of government as it’s today, to have an effective police. But they need the police for protection. So, I will make that difference.”
The second edition of the town hall has four Presidential Candidates in attendance – African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore; Action Democratic Party, Mallam Yabagi Sani; All Progressives Grand Alliance, Professor Peter Umeadi, and Adebayo.
Four presidential candidates, were scheduled for the first of a series of town hall discussions. They were chosen based on the performance of their parties in a CDD online survey.
The top four parties were labour Party (LP), All Progressives Congress (APC), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and New Nigeria People’s Party.
However, Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the APC was not present, while Atiku Abubakar of the PDP was represented by his running mate.
