2023: Ex-Nigerian Military President Denies Supporting VC President Osinbajo For Presidential Election
As 2023 elections draw nearer permutations to succeed incumbents who are either completing their constitutional term of four years of tenure especially a top-notch elective position like presidency is on top gear.
A former Military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has debunked the news of the alleged endorsement of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for the 2023 presidential election.
Global Times Nigeria report that a section of the Nigerian media had reported that General Babangida endorsed the candidature of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo in the 2023 presidential elections.
The reports quoted IBB as making the endorsement when the Osibanjo Grassroot Organization visited him in his Uphill Residence in Minna, Niger State.
Speaking after the alleged news of his endorsement, the former Head of State said he was misquoted by the media, saying he never endorsed the Vice President in 2023.
In the statement from his media office, Babangida noted that despite rooting for a president that is less than 70 years, there is no way he would endorse a South Westerner considering the mood of the country.
He, however, acknowledged eulogizing the leadership qualities of the Ogun State-born politician.
Recall that the elder statesman had named the Chief Whip of the Senate, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu as a possible successor for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
The former military president stated this in a documentary aired on AIT.
He remarked after he was asked to speak on the kind of character a politician is expected to exhibit in his desire to take over in 2023.
Babangida who was asked how he would like to address the leadership issue in the country during the interview said.
“We are running and we will be running a democracy, but we haven’t reached the level. We didn’t have the democratic institution that is working very well, our institutions must be above parties and politics and so on.”
“You have to have a lot of knowledge be it business, be it academics and so on and I feel everybody, every politician at certain age most aspire. Obama is just making sixty years old after serving two times in the United States so as Clinton and so and so on we can have the likes of Orji Uzor Kalu who is interested in running the country and why not?”
