Osita Okechukwu, director-general of Voice of Nigeria (VON),
says Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), should
support a south-east candidate for presidency in the 2023 general election.
He said this on Sunday at a media briefing in Abuja, while
speaking on calls for Tinubu to contest the presidency.
Although the former Lagos governor is yet to officially
declare his interest in contesting, he had recently said he would not turn down
the calls of his supporters asking him to run for the office of the president
in 2023.
Speaking on the development, Okechukwu said Tinubu played a
critical role in the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, adding
that the former Lagos governor could also play a “kingmaker” role in 2023.
The director-general said having a south-eastern
presidential candidate would unite the region and the country at large.
“If one is consulted by our national leader, his excellency,
asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on whether he should run or not for the exalted
office of the president of Nigeria in 2023, my candid advice will be that he
should use his abundant Almighty God’s endowment to unite the APC and unite the
south and by extension our beloved country, by backing a candidate from the
south-east,” he said.
“The scriptures said there is time for everything which
happens on earth.
“I am one of those
Buharists who have tremendous respect for Asiwaju for the critical supplement
he added to Buhari’s 12 million vote bank, which resulted in our 2015 presidential
election victory.
“It is not a mean feat, when you consider that with Buhari’s
vote bank. We were unable to win in 2003, 2007 and 2011, until the merger of
the legacy political parties, where Tinubu played a major role.”
Okechukwu also said he is not aware of any agreement between
Buhari and Tinubu on contesting the presidency in the build-up to to 2015
election.
“I don’t know of any agreement. However, as I said, the
scriptures posit that there is time for everything which happens on this
planet,” he said.
“All I know is that
there was raging debate on the proprietary of Muslim/Muslim ticket as to
whether it can guarantee victory of the APC at the 2015 presidential election.”
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