Razaq Bamidele
A non-governmental governmental organisation (NGO), the Black Youth Vanguard (BYV), has explained reason behind it’s preference for Works and Housing Minister, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), as president in 2023, saying, another good hand should take over from the outgoing good hand.
Convener of the NGO, Comrade James Adeyemi told our reporter in an interview in Lagos Thursday that, sentiment apartment, Fashola’s antecedent.
and pedigree had left nobody in doubt that he has what it takes to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari, believing that he knows where to continue when this administration ends in 2023.
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According to him, Fashola has paid his due and cut his teeth in politics and governance so much that his name has become a recurring decimal on the lips of all Nigerians, believing that his presidency has sort of becoming acceptable to all and sundry in such a way that his victory appears as a foregone conclusion in advance.
The youth NGO boss stated emphatically that that to govern the state like Lagos successfully for two consecutive terms can never be a mean achievement, pointing out that, that credential is ai intimidating that Nigerians are worried that someone with such a political acumen has not declared for the country’s front seat in 2023.
Adeyemi therefore assured that his organization along with other groups of like-minded groups would find a democractic means if luring him into the presidential race, believing that he would succumb to the pressure for the sake of the generality of Nigerians who believe he can do it.
The NGO boss, against this backdrop has appealed to all well meaning Nigerians to join hands with his group in persuading the Minister to come and serve his good people on a higher level, saying, it would amount to selfishness if he shuns all entreaties to contest for president in 2023.