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.
Hello Buba Galadima:
Thanks for your Statement “whoever rules Nigeria must work for it”. In the 21st century the world is not looking for rulers, but LEADERS.
A leader is said to be someone who knows what is needed by the people he is leading. the years have gone when crowns and princes ruled the underlings the time now is for Leadership in other words someone to LEAD TWO HUNDRED PLUS POPULATION OF CIVILIZED INDIVIDUALS MUST HAVE WITS AND WIZZY. MUST KNOW THAT COLD COFFEE IS TAKEN BY KIDS IN THE SUN AND HOT COFFE BY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE TEMPERATE WEATHER MY MAN,
What makes the leader different from the ruler are many factors, the leader knows exactly the elements of the population under his leadership so he quickly does everything to organize and provide structures that fit the entire population distributing services and potential appointment equitably. He would not distribute services preferentially knowing that such will enable murmuring amongst the led.
Buba this has been Zeph Stephenson’s contribution