A member of the APC Board of Trustees (BOT), Buba Galadima, has condemned power rotation, saying whoever must lead Nigeria must work for it.
In what appeared a direct attack on the push for Igbo presidency in 2023, the former Buhari ally said power rotation is undemocratic.
“I’m a democrat. I don’t belong to the class of those who practice the politics of convenience and I have always believed that you must work to earn what you should get. Since the days of my youth, I have never believed in power rotation.
“That was clearly my position during the 1987 Constituent Assembly, 1994 Constitutional Conference and the 2014 National Conference. So, I’m not just going to change midway.
“Whoever wants to lead Nigeria must work for it, must reach out, must make friends, must have a plan, must have a vision, must have a fore-sight of how to make Nigeria work. If the Queen of England can colonise Nigeria and make it work today, let me assure you (I am the late Sam Mbakwe’s student) I will support her 100 percent, Buba Galadima told Sunday Punch.
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He berated those accusing the north of being against restructuring, which he described as a nebulous term.
“I don’t understand what restructuring is. If you define restructuring to me, I can give you an answer.
“Nobody was able to define what restructuring is all about in all the three constitutional conferences I attended.
“Whoever defines restructuring, defines it from his point of view; from his personal interest, group interest, regional interest; that should not be the case.
“There must be a universal definition of restructuring so that we can now agree either to work towards it or against it,” Buba Galadima said.