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2023: Nigeria’s president should be in his 60s- IBB

Akinwande Soji-Ojo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo
August 6, 2021
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2023: Nigeria’s president should be in his 60s- IBB
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Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has stated that the next president of Nigeria in 2023 should be in his 60s because of the nature of the work of the country’s leader.

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Babangida, popularly called IBB, stated this in an exclusive interview with Arise Television on Friday morning.

IBB said one of the reasons Nigeria has refused to progress and achieve the dreams of the founding fathers was because Nigerians no longer believed in the future of their own country.

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Although Babangida did not mention any name as ineligible for the nation’s number one seat, he however suggested that individuals in their 60s should be the focus of Nigerians as potential presidential candidates in 2023.

Babangida said he was confident that the nation is endowed with humans, who he said were in their 60s, had the capacity to become president and could effectively run the country.

The former leader, who accused the Nigerians of creating and destroying their own country, identified bad leadership as the major reason for the socio-economic challenges facing Nigeria.

Talking about the presidential hopefuls he had in mind, IBB said they were persons in their 60s with contacts across the nation and who had been traversing the geo-political zones marketing their acceptability and capacity.

“If you get a good leadership that links with the people and tries to talk with the people; not talking on top of the people, then we would be okay.

“I have started visualising a good Nigerian leader. That is, a person, who travels across the country and has a friend virtually everywhere he travels to and he knows at least one person that he can communicate with.

“That is a person, who is very verse in economics and is also a good politician, who should be able to talk to Nigerians and so on. I have seen one, or two or three of such persons already in his sixties,” he said.

But when asked if the person could emerge victorious in the 2023 presidential election, the Minna-born former military leader said: “I believe so if we can get him.”

Responding to a question on whether or not he still believed in the future of Nigeria, the former military president, said: “I do believe in the future of Nigeria, but Nigerians don’t believe in the future of their country. They created and they destroyed.”

He urged Nigerians to remain patriotic and go go for the person that has what it takes to transform the country in 2023.

IBB, who will be 80 on August 17, 2021, said he is feeling good as he was about to turn 80, adding that he is full of gratitude to God for sparing his life.

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