President Muhammadu Buhari’s nephew, Mamman
Daura, has received the support of Hon. Sunday
Frank-Oputu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in
Bayelsa State on power shift ahead of 2023 general elections.
Recall that the President’s nephew in an interview with BBC
Hausa Service noted that the most qualified Nigerian should succeed
Buhari in 2023, irrespective of the zone such candidate comes
from.
Oputu during an interview on Sunday stated that competence,
pedigree and capacity should determine the choice of who becomes
the President rather than rotation which always imposes poor
leadership on the people.
He said, “Well I want to say, with all sense of humility
that the position of an executive, by the Nigerian constitution;
the position and the authority it drives is too absolute so in that
case, I think that Nigeria has to really assess the kind of person
that should go for that kind of an executive position.”
“There should be some kind of character assessment on the
individual that should hold claim to such a position.”
“So if we are to rotate it, and because we have rotated it
people do not look at it from the aspect of who really qualifies
for that position or the man that can really take that absolute
power and make good use of it to the betterment of all.”
These assessments must be the first criteria not just from
south or north. So, there should be a way that when a man has a
better pedigree no matter where he comes from he should be the
source so that there should be some transformation if not
developmentally we are stagnant.”
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“So I think the issue of zoning, should not be the thing to
discuss, particularly when it has to do with executive powers which
have absolute control we should look at the human factor, this man
what are his antecedents and then give him, even if he has to go
for ten tenures as far as what society needs, is provided because
our own we are not going further rather we are a little lower at
every point when it is scaled among developing countries in the
world.”
“Even if your candidate is a useless one you will still use
your population to impose him on the people. If it is on that
basis, that he said the zoning should not be there, then I am
against it but if it’s for merit as a man that should be president
of Nigeria I think zoning should not be there”.
We should look at the merits, and demerits of candidates who
are vying for the position to give them the mandate not because of
where they come from, then we give to the wrong person, and he
draws us backwards.”
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