2023: Why Nigeria should elect me next president —Saraki

Former Senate President Bukola Saraki has listed qualities that qualifies him to be the next president of Nigeria in 2023.

Saraki spoke on during an interview on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics.

He was answering questions that bordered on his interest in the 2023 presidential election.

He said, “I believe I have what it takes to lead Nigeria.

“I am not someone who shies away from taking up challenges. I am not someone who does not know the issues or someone who does not have the energy and vibrancy to address those issues.

“More importantly, I am someone that can reach out across the political divide, based on my antecedents. I am someone who can reach out across the ethnicity divide and across the religious divide”.

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He added that the qualities he listed were the major things needed to unite the country currently.

Saraki, who said he was still consulting and would soon make an appropriate announcement, hinted that the possibility of him running for the presidential seat was very high.

On the issue of zoning he said, “When you talk about zoning, yes, you must consider zoning but when we talk about zoning it can’t just be an issue of north/south because you cannot tell me that the southwest will say they are disenfranchised in the possibility of political office; neither can you say the south-south. But the reality is that southeast and north-central and southeast have not had Presidency or Vice Presidency. But what I’m saying is today, where the country is, with the challenges before the country, we must bring in other issues.

“We did it when we wanted to look for the National Chairman of our party. we went seeking for who we felt was the best that would help the party.

“There are people who can provide solutions to the problems of the country if you give them the opportunity,” he added when asked of his closing words to the majority of Nigerians who believe that the All Progressives Congress and the People’s Democratic Party are both one and the same and may not be able to provide the change they seek.

“I think it will be unfair to use one paintbrush for everybody,’ Saraki said. “But I can speak for myself that everywhere I have been, I have always left it better than I found it and there are many people also like me”.