‘They want to use bandits to win election’ – Adebayo on why govt can’t end insecurity

The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, Adewole Adebayo, has accused Nigerian political leaders of using bandits to win election.

Adebayo made this allegation in an interview on ‘Politics Hub’, a programme on Vanguard.

He was speaking on the upsurge in banditry and terrorism in the country.

“If I was President now, there would be no bandits. If President Bola Tinubu does not want bandits in Nigeria by Christmas this year, bandits will go away.

“So, if the government wants to get rid of bandits, it can do it effortlessly. But government officials have complicated themselves.

“They need bandits’ leaders to help them win election and they need to make money out out banditry. They need to cover one thing or the other.

“But if the President says ‘I don’t want to see any bandits again’, you won’t see bandits,” Adebayo said.