I Advise Tinubu Drop His Presidential Ambition, Back a Younger Igbo Person

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Mr Osita Okechukwu, Director-General, Voice of Nigeria (VON), has advised the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former two-term Governor of Lagos State, Sen. Bola Tinubu, to forget about his 2023 presidential ambition and back a younger person.

He gave the advice in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, adding that Tinubu should rather be a Kingmaker and back a younger presidential candidate from the South East.

According to the statement, Okechukwu , a foundation member of the APC, gave the advise at the 2021 Eke Day in Abuja.

“If I am 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.

Okechukwu further advised Tinubu to throw his weight behind a younger person from the South, especially the South-East geopolitical zone, to emerge as the country’s next president in 2023.

He said by so doing, Tinubu would had united the south forever.

The VON boss added that if Tinubu widens his search, he would definitely find a credible candidate from the South-East who would easily defeat the presumed candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.

According to Okechukwu, by so doing Tinubu would have wittingly used one stone to kill two birds, unite the APC, and unite the South and by extension, the entire country.

He emphasized that it would be statesmanlike for Tinubu to be a Kingmaker instead of “throwing his hat into the ring”.