What is your position on rotational presidency? "As far as I am concerned, we have accepted to adopt a federal system of government, we have agreed to practice democracy; we should therefore allow democracy to work. Let anybody from anywhere, whatever religion or tribe he belongs to contest the election. I do not care who leads the country, so long as he would do justice and fair play, justice and fair play. These are the things I am looking for. This question of, ‘this time is my turn, that time is your turn,’ will encourage a lot of things, corruption and bastardized democracy, because once I am there and I know that I will be there for the next few years and after that somebody will take over, I will make sure that I entrench my own people. In trying to entrench my own people, I will also make sure that if it is possible I stay on so that the people I put in power will not be removed after I might have gone. It is human nature. Leave the thing open, Nigerians want the best and only the best is good for Nigeria. Let him come from the West, East, Niger Delta or the North, anywhere, if he is good, and the people accept him, if he will do justice and fair play. Behind every crisis in the world, not only in Nigeria, is injustice and the solution to this is justice. I do not care about where the person ruling comes from; I care about his sense of justice and fair play. A good leader is someone with the fear of God, who will not cheat people or kill people because he believes he would stand before God one day to account for what he is doing. A leader that will accept in public what he accepted in secret. You talk of one Nigeria, but when you get to your room you tell your brother, do not trust him, he is not from our tribe or religion. Is that how we can build true Nigeria? We want leaders who will not steal or lie, but with honour." - Maitama Sule
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 21:06:30 +0000
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