Former Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki has said the
Nigerian nation does not need a part-time President at this point in time.
Saraki said the next president after the incumbent Muhammadu
Buhari must possess the energy and capacity to carry the workload and the
demands of office.
The former Senate President stated this while addressing
delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ogun State, whom he met
after a closed-door meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Saraki, who was accompanied by a former National Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Abubakar Kawu Baraje, said only a president
that is up and running can solve the worsening state of insecurity, bad economy
and disunity in the country.
“We need a President that will stand, that is bold and
courageous. We all know four years as the Senate President, I stood for this
country, I stood for what I believed was in the interest of this country.
“Let us find that person who has the energy because the work
of a President is not part-time, especially now that the country is very bad.
“Nigeria needs a president that is up and running, not a
president that will be giving instructions because when you give instructions
and you don’t check, nothing will happen.
“You need somebody that has the energy to do it. I believe
that I have that energy and capacity to do it,” Saraki said.
Saraki while addressing journalists earlier after his
meeting with Obasanjo, said Nigeria is in a very delicate situation and a wrong
choice of president would spell doom for the country.
His words: “We are in a very very delicate state as a nation
and we need somebody who has the experience, somebody who can unite us because
without unity we cannot go anywhere.”
Explaining the reason behind his visit to Obasanjo, Saraki
said he was in Ogun State to meet with PDP delegates.
He spoke further, “I can’t come to Ogun State and not pay a
visit to the former President, our father and leader of modern Nigeria,
somebody I’m very closed to since I started my political career. So, I came to
see him to let him know that I’m in Ogun State and to see how good and how well
he is doing. And we thank God for his health, his energy and his passion for
this great country. It inspires us to see that definitely, we need to turn this
country around into a country that he wishes for and that all of us wish.”
He expressed confidence in winning the PDP Presidential
primaries, saying “I believe that the time today, the kind of leadership that
this country requires, I can provide that leadership.”
Speaking, a leader of the PDP in Ogun State, Hon. Ladi
Adebutu assured Saraki of the needed support.
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