The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has addressed concerns of a Nigerian youth becoming the next president in 2023, insisting that the time was not yet ripe for a youthful President.
Ahead of the 2023 elections, Nigerian youths have agitated that old leaders should not be allowed to lead the nation after President Muhammadu Buhari.
According to them, it’s time for a young Nigerian to lead the country.
However, Tinubu, while speaking in a viral video sighted Africa Today News, New York on Sunday, maintained that he wants the youth to be president of Nigeria but that will happen after he’s served as the president.
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The APC leader made the comment during a visit to the Alaafin of Oyo on Sunday.
‘If you become the President, you want to chase us from the streets?
‘You’ll become old and be president but after me,’ Tinubu said.
Recall that the Former Governor of Lagos State had three weeks ago announced his intention to contest for president in 2023.
Tinubu told President Muhammadu Buhari that his decision to run for the presidency was a lifelong aspiration.
Similarly, reports had it that his estranged Godson and protégée, Osinbajo would soon make his intention known as it is believed that he is nursing a Presidential ambition.
Meanwhile, the Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), chaired by Yobe State Governor Mai Bala Buni has confirmed the postponement of the party’s convention which was originally scheduled to hold on 26th February.
Africa Today News, New York gathered that the postponement will be for two weeks, which means that the convention will now take place on 12 March.
President Buhari, who just returned from a trip to Brussels approved the postponement on Sunday.
The convention committee met Sunday night to announce the postponement, a not-so-popular decision among party members, which wanted the party to keep the date sacrosanct.
You would recall that the APC has not held a convention since June 2018, when the Oshiomhole executive was elected into office.
AFRICA TODAY NEWS, NEW YORK