2023: You’re not the kind of leader Nigeria needs - APC chieftain bluntly tells Tinubu
- Hon Adamu Kuta, a Niger APC chieftain, says Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is not the president Nigeria needs in 2023
- The former House of Reps member said Nigeria needs a leader that can consolidate on the achievements and the foundation laid by President Muhammadu Buhari
- Kuta also dismissed insinuations that there might not be an APC after Buhari in 2023
- The APC chieftain, however, said the focus should be how to get a credible candidate that will take over from Buhari in 2023
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has been criticized by a frontline politician and chieftain of the party in Niger state, Hon Adamu Kuta, for saying he (Tinubu) is under pressure to contest for the presidency in 2023.
In an interview with journalists in Minna, the APC chieftain, who is also a former House of Representatives member, said Tinubu is not the president Nigeria needs in 2023, Daily Independent reports.
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Legit.ng gathers that Kuta also aligned with the recent submission by the forum head of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Mallam Shettima Yerima, that in 2023, the North will still produce the nation’s president.
According to Kuta, Nigeria needs a leader that can consolidate on the achievements and the foundation laid by President Muhammadu Buhari, especially the anti-corruption campaign; regardless of which region produces the next president.
He said: “I like Tinubu as a person and he has contributed immensely to the success of our party; but honestly, he is not the kind of president Nigeria needs in 2023.
“Nigerians need someone that can continue with the achievements and the foundation that Buhari has laid. We want someone that can continue from where he will stop in 2023.”
Kuta also dismissed insinuations that there might not be an APC after Buhari in 2023, due to the current crisis in the ruling party.
He said the “crisis is not new in party politics and every political party has its own share of the crisis.”
He added: “It is the good work of Buhari in the next four years that will determine whether or not the party can last beyond 2023. But the good work Buhari is doing now, there is no doubt that the party will win the 2023 election.”
Speaking on which region should produce the nation’s president in 2023, Kuta said “the Nigeria constitution does not recognize zoning of political offices.” He said the president can come from anywhere.
“The last general election had presidential candidates from every region of the country and nobody stopped them because the constitution recognizes them.
“So every region has the constitutional right to field candidates for any elective position in the country.
“Our focus should be how to get a credible candidate that will take over from Buhari in 2023, regardless of the region the person will come from. We want the best for the country,” he said.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that a former national chairman of the Mega Progressives Peoples Party (MPPP), now Mega Party of Nigeria (MPN), Oludare Falade, declared that nothing would stop the national leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from succeeding President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
Falade, who is now a chieftain of the APC, said Tinubu would receive people's support across the country.
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