The Founder of Household of God Church, Reverend Chris
Okotie, has asked political parties’ presidential candidates to step down for
him in his bid to take over from the President, Muhammadu Buhari.
This is as he also urged Buhari to hand over to him as
Interim President in 2023, noting that he was the right person to right the wrongs
in the country.
The cleric made the call on Sunday while addressing
journalists at his Church, Oregun, Ikeja when celebrating his 63rd birthday
anniversary.
Explaining the rationale behind his request, Okotie noted
that he had proposed to become the interim president because that was the
“solution” for the country’s challenges.
According to him, we are blessed as a nation with all human
and natural resources yet we are not moving forward. Through my government,
everything will be alright.
“I want to appeal to all presidential candidates to withdraw
from the race and allow me to come in as the interim president. I want to
implore Asiwaju to support my government for the betterment of the country and
I also want to tell Obi that the system that introduced him cannot take him
anywhere, because he cannot operate in the system we have now. All the
presidential candidates should support me to succeed President Buhari as the
interim president.
“We must also rise above tribe and religion because there is
an imbalance in the country and we are not practising federalism instead, what
we are practising is a presidential system of government. Since 1999, things
have been declining because the presidential system of government we are
practising has failed us.
“We must get rid of the National and State Assemblies
because maintaining each member cost the country billions of naira. Some of the
standing committees at both assemblies are not useful to the country, they are
only representing themselves, not the populace.
“For the best of the
country, both assemblies should be scrapped and the money for maintaining them
should be used for something else. What we have in Nigeria today is the
government of the party, by the party and for the party.
“Ministers and the Commissioners should also be expunged
because Nigeria’s democracy has been hijacked by the elite for their interest
and they are deceiving the downtrodden who don’t know anything. And the most
important of all is our constitution. It should be changed to a people-oriented
constitution, not the military one we have now. After the change, we can then
restructure the country for the better.”
On his plans for the country after becoming the interim
president, Okotie said, “If I am made the interim president, our government
will be a transparent one and we will redirect the steps of the youth who are
into internet fraudsters and turned them to better persons in the society and
empower them.
“While a young person with inclination to technology
advancement will ensure financial accountability of government and each state
will have control of their national resources. First, we emulated the British
and now we are copying the American style of democracy that didn’t take us
anywhere.
“The presidential system of government has failed us
woefully. We should enable professional associations constitutionally to
acquire legislative power as a replacement for the removal of the legislature
from our political system.
“And we should also embrace the concept of aboriginal
democracy, that is a government from the people, for the people and with the
people. This is distinct from the current experience of political parties which
is the government of the party, the party and for the party.
“My government will be that of National Reconciliation and
Reconstruction. The interim government shall address aberrations and anomalies
in the polity. I want to implore all Nigerians to join hands in the
conversations that would enable a transition to an interim government at the
end of President Buhari’s administration”.
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