2027: Adebayo vows to end Nigeria’s import addiction if elected president

Ahead of the 2027 presidential election, the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo has promised to end the country’s decades-long addiction to importation and turn it into a self-reliant production economy by 2031.
Speaking on his economic blueprint, titled, ‘Farewell to Poverty and Insecurity,’ he noted that the prosecution of the plan would be guided by five principles, comprising self-reliance and import substitution, full employment and poverty elimination, balanced regional development, speedy implementation and strategic state intervention wherever private investment falls short.
Adebayo bemoaned what he described as decades of governance built o...