Chief Adewole Adebayo, presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the last election, has revealed that the party would sanitize all new and prospective members, including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
According to Adeboye, the sanitization is important so that they won’t pollute the party with the contaminants of where they are coming from.
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.
“Registration for membership is done at your ward level. So, it is up to every member to read the constitution of the party.”
