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2023: President Buhari’s role to choose his successor finally revealed
Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has asserted that his president will not choose his successor in 2023.
Adesina stated this on Monday night while appearing on Channels television.
While he admitted that the president would be interested in who becomes his successor, Adesina made it clear that the procedure will not be manipulated.
He said, “by May 2023 God willing he would have finished his second term as president, he would not have stood for another term and he will be exiting. So, he has that at the back of his mind.
“Pastor Bakare said he should be interested in who succeeds him, yes I’m sure the president will be interested in who succeeds him but he will not manipulate the process, to pick a successor.
“The president will not pick a successor. We know him, he is not somebody like that. Will he be interested in the process? Yes, he will. He will ensure that there is a free, fair and credible election; that nobody will come to use money and resources to bamboozle his way into the leadership of the country. It will not happen. The president will ensure free, fair and credible process; but to handpick a successor? No, he will not do that,” Adesina said.
The presidential spokesperson was reacting to a statement by the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, who urged the president to be involved in the choice of his successor.
He added that Buhari will not hand “Nigeria over to those who will take her back or hand Nigeria over to looters once again.
“One thing that is clear is that the president will do whatever is needful before the next set of general elections. Early enough is relative but the president will do whatever is needful.”
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