May 31, 2026
By Sola Coker
In a nation where communities devastated by banditry, kidnappings and mass killings often receive little more than presidential statements and military assurances, Adewole Adebayo is increasingly projecting himself as a different kind of national leader — one who believes leadership means physically standing with the people in their darkest hours.
From Plateau to Oyo and Ekiti states, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) chieftain has continued a series of condolence visits that many supporters now describe as the conduct of a “president-in-waiting” — a leader who not only speaks about insecurity but personally goes to grieving communities to comfort victims, offer hope and assure citizens that they have not been abandoned.
At the center of Adebayo’s message is one philosophy he repeatedly emphasizes wherever he goes:
