Prince Adewole Adebayo is the presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). In this interview, Adebayo, a lawyer and media owner, speaks on some national issues, including who becomes his running mate, why Nigeria is still in debt despite its wealth and how corruption can be checkmated in the country. ABDULRAHMAN ZAKARIYAU reports
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Are there guidelines your party followed in arriving at picking your running mate?
The idea is that the person should be someone that can advise, can assist while I am discharging my duties, and it should be someone that in any eventuality, Nigerians should be able to accept easily as a President and it should be someone who is there to assist, not using it as a ladder to climb to the next stage. It should be someone who is coming to assist, to see that he is the Chairman of the Economic Council. That person should be able to tell the President to his face ‘you are on the wrong path, stop it’ or things like that. He…
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