By Adesina Soyooye
Sounding almost like the late General Sani Abacha’s era when all the political parties adopted him as the sole Presidential Candidate, President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, January 24, was adopted the sole Presidential Candidate for the 2027 Presidential election
Ahead of the upcoming Presidential election which is about one year away, over 1,000 former Lawmakers, from across Nigeria, assembled in Abuja to endorse him as the sole Presidential Candidate in 2027.
They gathered in Abuja under the umbrella of the National Forum of Former Legislators and held what they called a National Summit.
The theme of the event was ‘’National unity and national building, beyond 2031.” The ex-Legislators used the summit as a platform to adopt Tinubu as their sole presidential candidate for the next election cycle.
The forum is made up of former members of the National Assembly and House of Assembly members from the 36 State Houses of Assembly.
The summit, also, strongly expressed support for a Rotational Presidency.
Specifically the members agreed that the Northern region should produce the president in 2031 when a Southerner would have completed eight years in office which started in 2023.
Those who offered goodwill messages during the summit were high-ranking officials and former presiding officers.
They included the Chief of Staff to the President, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, Minister of Interior, Honour Tunji Olubunmi-Ojo, and former Senate Presidents Ken Nnamani and Pius Anyim.
Other Speakers were, also, former Speakers of the House of Representatives, Honourables Yakubu Dogara and Patricia Etteh.
Femi Gbajabiamila, Chief of Staff to the President, in his address said that Nigeria is fortunate to have a leader who understands the complexities of the nation’s diversity.
He said that the administration has reached a historic milestone by ensuring that each of the six geographical zones now has its own Development Commission.
He noted the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road and the Sokoto-,Badagry highway which he said are not just roads but pathways for inter-ethnic interaction.
It is not however clear if the adoption of President Tinubu as the sole Presidential Candidate is limited to the APC only or if the organisers mean for it to extend to other political parties.
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