JUST IN!!! IBB Describes Senator Kalu as Nigeria’s Next President | #IgbereTV
Former Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), may be referring to Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Chief Whip of the Senate and successful businessman when he (IBB) described the country’s next president during an exclusive interview with Arise News.
In the interview, monitored by IgbereTV, IBB ruled out two other leading contenders, a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s by the next election.
IBB and Senator Kalu
By the next general election in 2023, Atiku, who is 75 this year would be 77, while Tinubu, who marked an official 68th birthday in March, would have turned 70 years.
Talking about the presidential hopefuls he had in mind, IBB said they were persons in their 6os with contacts across the nation and who had been traversing the geo-political zones marketing their acceptability and capacity.
Abia state born businessman, politician, and football enthusiast perfectly falls into IBB’s description. Kalu is 61 and ranks as the most detribalized Nigerian with friendship cut across the shores of the nation and beyond
Specifically on the importance of leadership in nation-building and where he thought the likes of Atiku and Tinubu no longer fit the bill, IBB said: “If you get a good leadership that links with the people and tries to talk with the people; not talking on top of the people, then we would be okay.
“I have started visualising a good Nigerian leader. That is, a person, who travels across the country and has a friend virtually everywhere he travels to and he knows at least one person that he can communicate with.”
“That is a person, who is very verse in economics and is also a good politician, who should be able to talk to Nigerians and so on. I have seen one, or two or three of such persons already in his sixties.”
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