—Urges Tinubu To Shelve Ambition, Back Younger Candidate

ABUJA – Ahead of the 2023 general election, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) Mr. Osita Okechukwu has canvassed for generational change in the leadership of the country and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Okechukwu has, therefore, urged the national leader of the APC and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to shelve his presidential ambition in preference for a younger candidate from the southern part of the country.

The APC founding member charged that instead of throwing his heart into the ring for the presidential ticket of APC,
Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu should be a Kingmaker, unite the south, and yield place for a younger candidate from the Southeast in line with the zoning convention of the party.

It is noted that the Southwest is currently holding the number two and four positions in the country via Prof Yemi Osinbajo,the vice president and Femi Gbajabiamila, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Okechukwu said:
“If one is 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.”

Okechukwu advised the APC National Leader to throw his weight behind a younger person from the South, especially the Southeast geopolitical zone to emerge as the President in 2023.

Tinubu by so doing, Okechukwu said, would have united the south forever; as some northerners have complained that why they are reluctant to support southern candidates is because of lack of cohesion among the two major geopolitical zones in the south.