A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Jiti Ogunye, has mocked former Military President, Ibrahim Babangida for calling on Nigerians to look towards people in their sixties to become the president in 2023.
Ogunye’s reaction came in a Facebook post after Babangida’s viral interview with Arise News on Friday.
Explaining the qualities he believed a Nigerian president should have, Babangida had said, “If you get a good leadership that links with the people and tries to talk with the people; not talking on top of the people, then we would be okay.
“I have started visualising a good Nigerian leader. That is, a person, who travels across the country and has a friend virtually everywhere he travels to and he knows at least one person that he can communicate with.
“That is a person, who is very versed in economics and is also a good politician, who should be able to talk to Nigerians and so on. I have seen one, or two or three of such persons already in his sixties.”
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Reacting, Ogunye wrote: A military ruler who seized power at 44 years, ruled for 8 years, annulled a presidential election won by a 55 years old man, thus precipitating the man’s arrest and incarceration for 4 years until his death in military custody at 60 years, today at 80, advocates for a president below the age of 60. What a godly genius!
Babangida will be 80 on August 17.