The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON), Osita Okechukwu, has urged former Lagos State Governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to behave like a statesman and drop his 2023 presidential ambition and instead support a younger person.
Okechukwu, a foundation member of Nigeria’s ruling party, was reacting to Tinubu’s recent comments that he would not reject the request by Nigerians to contest for President in 2023.
During an interaction with newsmen in Abuja, Tinubu had also disclosed that he was still making wide consultations and would come out with a decision soon.
Meanwhile, Okechukwu, in a recent statement on said instead of contesting, Tinubu should carry on with playing the kingmaker role by supporting and mentoring a young presidential aspirant from the southern part of the country.
He said: “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 southeast.
“It would be unstatesmanlike for a man like Tinubu to put himself forward at this time that the clamour for a South-East President is the loudest.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu should rather pick and support a younger person from the South-East in 2023. By so doing, he would have further written his name in the annals of history.”
Okechukwu made it known that supporting a young aspirant from the south would unite the region and added that some northerners are reluctant to support the south due to their lack of unity.
