We’ll sanitise El-Rufai, others to stop them from polluting SDP – Adebayo

By Ayorinde Oluokun

The 2023 presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Adewole Adebayo has said the party will sanitise former Kaduna governor, Nasir-El-Rufai and other political big political bigwigs who are now joining the party ahead of the 2027 general election.

The former Kaduna State Governor had some weeks ago dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC for the Social Democratic Party, SDP.

El-Rufai who announced his defection on his Facebook page joined the SDP with some of his political associates. The former Kaduna State Governor has also been wooing other leading opposition figures, including former presidential candidates of Labour Party and NNPP Peter Obi and Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governors and others.

However, Adebayo said while EL-Rufai and others are welcomed to the SDP, they will be disinfected so that they will not pollute the party while speaking on the Sunday edition of Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, a socio-political programme aired on Channels Television.

The former SDP presidential candidate said this is because El-Rufai and others have a lot of contaminants acquired from where they are coming from.

Adebayo noted that El-Rufai and others have already revealed that they face calamities like injustice, criminality, embarrassment, and lack of support in their political parties.

Adebayo said such politicians will be disinfected because they are coming from a highly infected zone.

He said, “If you want to come to the SDP, you have to make sure that you allow us to apply disinfectant, not because we don’t respect you but because you are coming from a highly infected zone.

“The same way we did it during COVID, when you go to your friend’s house. If you love your friend, he will disinfect you so that you don’t infect others.

“We’ll do it with order. Our party’s constitution is well-sanitised. The party’s guidelines are well-sanitised. Chapter 2 of the constitution around which we are organised to render services to the Nigerian people, the quality of leadership that we want, the processes untainted by criminality, bribery, excessive use of money, the notion of ethnicity, religionism and all of that.

“They (the newcomers) told us the calamity they were facing where they were coming from. Each of them talks about injustice. When Peter Obi left PDP, he said there was criminality and injustice there. El-Rufai is not shy about his calamity; how they (APC members) embarrassed him and how they were to give him a position and they stole it from him in a disrespectful way and other things like that.

“Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has his issues about how he ran and some people in his party did not support him.

“We sympathise with everyone who is coming, we know they’ve gone through a lot of trauma but our job is to say: whatever your job is, leave it at the door because this political party is not about politicians; it’s about the Nigerian people.

Adebayo also emphasized that registration for membership of SDP is done at at the ward level and every member should read the constitution of the party.
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However, Adebayo said he is ready to dump his presidential ambition in the 2027 elections for a better politician to emerge as the flag bearer of his party.