Adebayo rejects six-year tenure debate, declares war on election rigging

By Sunday Ani
Presidential candidate and chieftain of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Prince Adewole Adebayo, has dismissed the growing debate around the proposal for a single six-year presidential tenure as a distraction from Nigeria’s deeper governance and democratic challenges, insisting that electoral credibility, economic competence and security reforms should dominate national discourse ahead of 2027.
Speaking on a television programme, he argued that the country’s real challenge is not the length of time elected officials remain in office but whether elections genuinely reflect the will of voters.
According to him, Nigeria must confront what he described as the persistent ...