 Prince Adewale Adebayo has emerged the socio-democratic party's candidate for the 2023 presidential election. Adebayo scored 1,526 votes at the party's national convention in Abuja to emerge as the party's standard bearer, defeating the only co-contestant Khadija Lamidi, Uphold 83 votes. In his acceptance speech, 54-year-old Adebayo, a lawyer and founder of Kaftan television, said that with his imagines, it was a tone of Nigerian masses to take over power in 2023.