Pastor Ituah Ighodalo, the Senior Pastor of Trinity House, a non-denominational Christian center based in Lagos, has stated that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a leader of the All Progressives Congress, cannot replace President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
In an interview with Mediaroomhub, the cleric, who is Tinubu's close friend, said the former Lagos governor is only ambitious and has nothing to offer Nigerians.
He remarked that what the country needs after Buhari is
someone who is truly willing to serve, not someone who sees the presidency as a
personal goal. Ighodalo said: “Tinubu is my personal friend, as a person, I
love him very much, he has been very kind to me, he is a good man, but
leadership today in Nigeria is greater than any personal ambition, the kind of
leader we want is not someone who says being president has been my life
ambition, no, you must do better than that. What are you offering the people?
What are you giving the people, where are you taking them to, do you have the
interest of the people at heart? Or you are just trying to put on your CV that
you became president of Nigeria?
“We don’t have time for that anymore in Nigeria, we want
people who really want to serve the people, people who are really ready to lay
themselves down for the people, people who have a vision for Nigeria, people who
are bold enough to take the right decision and not going to offer us on the
altar of politics and compromise us just because they want something or the
other and take us back to square one again and we are suffering all over the
place.”
Speaking further, the popular clergyman said the National
leader of the APC has done well producing many leaders.
Pastor Ighodalo stated that Tinubu should instead be
thinking of how to unite Nigerians to select a person who will be able to take
the country forward.
He said: “I am looking for that righteous person who is
ready to stop all these corrupt practices and not dashing people money, but
using the money to educate them, build schools, hospital and laying
infrastructures.
“What drives an economy is production, the ability to
transform raw materials into finished goods. When you continue producing, there
will be more than enough for everybody to consume.
“We want leaders that will encourage production, it means that the constitution of Nigeria must be changed and fashioned in such a way that there can be complete production of all the resources of Nigeria.”
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