Ebun Francis| President Muhammadu Buhari will not handpick his successor in 2023, presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina said on Monday.
Adesina who stated this while speaking on Channels Television, however, diclosed that while the president will be interested in who succeeds him, he will not manipulate the process to favour anyone.
Apparently reacting to a statement by Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly (LRA), that president Buhari should groom a successor to build on his legacies, Adesina was adamant that his principal will not hand “Nigeria over to those who will take her back or hand Nigeria over to looters once again.
He said, “By May 2023 God willing he would have finished his second term as president, he would not have stood for another term and he will be exiting. So, he has that at the back of his mind.”
“Pastor Bakare said he should be interested in who succeeds him, yes I’m sure the president will be interested in who succeeds him but he will not manipulate the process, to pick a successor.
“The president will not pick a successor. We know him, he is not somebody like that. Will he be interested in the process? Yes, he will. He will ensure that there is a free, fair and credible election; that nobody will come to use money and resources to bamboozle his way into the leadership of the country. It will not happen. The president will ensure free, fair and credible process; but to handpick a successor? No, he will not do that.”
“One thing that is clear is that the president will do whatever is needful before the next set of general elections. Early enough is relative but the president will do whatever is needful,”he concluded.
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