THE President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has been urged to adopt the late Mandela option by stepping aside.
This advice was given by the National Chairman of the National Chairman of United Progressive Party (UPP) and former presidential candidate, Chief Chekwas Okorie.
While speaking in a chat with Sunday Sun, he urged the president to concentrate more on providing the dividends of democracy by fulfilling his electoral promises to the people instead of allowing the 2019 presidential ambition to distract him in this regard.
Below is an extract from the interview with Daily Sun.
Excerpt:
President Muhammadu Buhari is ill but some of his aides have reportedly started campaigns for his re-election in 2019. What is your take on that?
''First of all, Nigerians are the ones that will decide who becomes their president or not. And we as political party leaders are satisfied with the arrangement that has been put in place by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to introduce technology into the electoral process in order to ensure that to a large extent, the votes of Nigerians count. That is fundamental. So, if Buhari decides to run in 2019 it is his prerogative. If the All Progressives Congress (APC) feels that he has electoral value to lead it to victory, that is the headache of the party.
For us in the United Progressive Party (UPP), we shall even celebrate it because it makes campaign easier for us. It is so because everybody knows that Buhari is ill; even now he is not able to give up to 50 per cent of his time to his assignment and that is very serious for a country in a hurry to develop. Now, it is beginning to show that presiding over the normal weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting is becoming a challenge to him. So, if under such circumstances he decides to run, that is bonus to a party like UPP because, like I said, we will be confronting a weaker candidate while we will be presenting a candidate that is far ahead of him in everything, including human capacity.
Chief Chekwas Okorie
''But in his own personal interest, my advise to him is not to try to present himself again otherwise he will be thoroughly humiliated. I recommend the Mandela option for him; he has shown his resilience in confronting the challenges of the electoral process in a third world country like Nigeria and he has won. He has made history having won at the fourth attempt. I think the ovation is still a bit high for him now; the honourable path is for him to simply thank Nigerians and go and look after his health. But if because of the attitude of the average Black in third world countries to remain in office and die in office, he chooses to contest again, he will be facing the greatest political humiliation of his life. I don’t think even his people will vote for him.''
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