God Will Give Nigeria Best Person As President In 2023 – El-Rufai Tells Tinubu, After He Donated N50million To Kaduna State

 

Kaduna state governor, Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna has told former Lagos state governor, Bola Tinubu that God will give Nigeria best person as president come 2023.

El-Rufia also said that Nigeria is at “critical crossroads”.

Mr El-Rufai said this while receiving, Bola Tinubu, who was in the state, on a condolence visit over the bandits’ attack on a Kaduna-bound train.

The governor told Tinubu that he was aware of his presidential ambition, but added that he was looking unto God to help Nigeria choose the best leader come 2023.

The governor said, “This gesture by Asiwaju is a show of powerful leadership, empathy and concern for the lives and property of Nigerians. It’s unprecedented in our history in Nigeria. The government and people of Kaduna state will never forget this gesture. We are very grateful to you for service, sacrifice and commitment to the unity and that of our country. We appreciate your call for people to contribute to enable us rehabilitate the victims of this tragedy.

“We are aware of your aspiration to be president of this country, we look forward to further engagement so that we can progress that aspiration.

“Nigeria is at crossroad, critical crossroad, and we must take very difficult decisions to get the right leaders that would take us out of the multiple quagmires that we are going through. These are human challenges and they can be solved by human ingenuity. I pray for God to choose who is best for Nigeria, so that we will be the better, united, progressive and exemplary country that is fair and just to everyone.”

Tinubu in his remarks, lamented the spate of banditry and terrorism being witnesses in the country saying “Nigeria is bleeding.”

President Buhari has failed to visit the state ever since attacks, killings and kidnapping became incessant.

Not even the recent bombing of the commercial train could move the President to Kaduna, a state where he was said to have resided until 2015.

El-Rufai had recently threatened that governors in the North-West could opt for the services of foreign mercenaries if attacks continued in the region, a statement which directly indicted the Buhari government.

I’m Coming To Do Brain Work As President, Not Concrete Work’ – Tinubu Tells Nigerians

 

The National Leader of the Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has taken a swipe at critics who raise issues about his health and age that he’s coming to do brain work and President and not a concrete work requiring raw energy and agility.

He APC chieftain is currently meeting with the APC Caucus of the House of Representatives in Abuja as part of his ongoing consultation ahead of the 2023 presidential race.

In 2023 We Want A Yoruba Muslim As President – MURIC To Osinbajo

The Muslim Rights Concern(MURIC) has warned Vice President Yemi Osinbajo over his alleged presidential ambition.

Reacting, MURIC informed Osinbajo, who is an ordained pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), that it was the turn of Muslims in the South-West to rule Nigeria and not Christians.

MURIC’s director, Ishaq Akintola, said in a statement:

“Three Yoruba Christians (Obasanjo, Shonekan and Osinbajo himself) have occupied the presidency whereas no single Yoruba Muslim has been either military head of state, president or vice president of Nigeria.

“This factor has given Yoruba Christians both political and economic edges and subjected Yoruba Muslims to political marginalisation, social segregation and gross economic disadvantage leading to abject penury among Muslims in the sub-region.

“Muslims in the South-West will no longer remain onlookers in matters affecting our welfare and our collective destiny. Any Yoruba Christian or Muslim candidate seeking office will have to consult the Muslim community. Nobody will be allowed to take Muslims for a ride and get elected on a platter of gold.

“All other things being equal, we would not have worried at all and we would not have brought the religious factor to the fore in Nigeria’s march towards 2023. But the brazen effrontery and undisguised persecution of Yoruba Muslims coupled with the criminal silence from those that matter among Christian leaders, civil society and Yoruba socio-cultural groups have made our stand necessary.

“Our stand is informed by an urgent need to liberate Yoruba Muslims from the shackles of religious persecution.”