I will NOT continue from where Buhari stopped, if elected as president in 2023” -By Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies

The Presidential candidate of Mass Action Joint Alliance (MAJA) in the 2019 election, Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies (PMA) has asserted and promised Nigerians that, she will definitely NOT continue from where Buhari stopped if elected as president in 2023.

This is in reaction and response to the statement of National Leader, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, The National leader of the All Progressives Congress APC, Bola Tinubu, who has said it is his lifelong ambition to become Nigeria’s president, and “He will continue from where Buhari stopped if elected as president in 2023”, on Monday 11, 2023 after informing President Muhammadu Buhari of his ambition to contest for the position of president in 2023 at Aso villa.

It was reported that, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, also stated that, “He has the confidence, the vision and the capacity to build on the vision of the current President.” He maintained that, “he has the confidence, vision, and capacity to build on the foundation laid by President Buhari. Prof. Funmilayo Adesanya-Davies (PMA) pleads, “Please, Nigerians are fed up with Muhammadu Buhari’s highly inflammable regime and has no further plans to field in someone who claims to have MISSION BUHARI PART II and “the vision and the capacity to build on the vision of the current President.” – Adesanya-Davies.

Ahmed Tinubu said this at the State House where he went to see the President on general issues concerning Nigeria including some of the concerns in the APC as well as security issues. However, the female academician and politician has reacted:

“One would have expected an experienced and elder statesman such as the Ex-governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to know better than that by now. “Nigeria is on auto reverse gear, with Buhari’s government and we will need a president that can clutch down, put us back to neutral, go to gear one and re-navigate, so that Nigeria can again move forward and not same old brains and frail hands in the 2023 Presidency by the grace of God. President Buhari’s script is not a re-sit result but a carry-over grade. ” Adesanya-Davies replied.

In fact, Adesanya-Davies added, “Nigeria is in need of a Female President in 2023 for a very drastic change. The change that we need! The real change for real people! I HAVE A DREAM, THAT ONE DAY, A WOMAN WILL EMERGE AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AND THE DREAM IS NOW !!!” – PMA. This is because, she quotes, “if Nigerians elect a female president, it will be a turning point in the nation’s history. It will also be an honour to have Nigeria’s first female president. If Nigeria can give women a chance to rule, I am sure we will never regret it.” – Nabila Ado Ghali.

He added, “It is disappointing that since the return of democracy in 1999, only men have been presidents as the two major political parties in the country field only men as their presidential candidates. No woman has been fielded by any of the main parties like APC and PDP to run for the presidency. If they do, the difference will be clear! He added, “I wonder why a woman can’t be allowed to be president. Since our independence in 1960, no woman has been given the chance to become president and I think this it is a big mistake. Having a woman president has many advantages.” Nabila Ghali, is of the Department of Mass Communication, Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic.

Again, on 2023 presidency, Elder statesman, Anthony Sani has reacted to Tinubu’s Declaration on January 13, 2022 saying: “I am not a fan of politics of identity symbolized by region, ethnicity and religion that is divisive as it seeks to supplant itself on those of real issues of real concern to real ordinary Nigerians. He said, such dividing lines and fissiparous tendencies include region, ethnicity and religion, besides gender and generation.

However, if we must include religion in the politics of identity, one expects a Christian president should emerge from the South that is predominantly populated by Christians. That way, two birds would be killed with one stone,” Sani said. The elder statesman said if that is done, it will appease the regionalists and also the Christians.”

In another opinion, shared by Abimbola Adelakun, in an article titled, “Tinubu’s presidency: Affliction must not rise a second time”, on 13, January 2022, in Punch, he explained: “We always knew the day would come when former Lagos State governor, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, would declare his interest in running for president…. Unfortunately, Nigeria cannot afford a Tinubu presidency; following the Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.)’s locust years with the impotence that Tinubu’s leadership portends is to doom the country. After eight years of maladministration by Buhari, we cannot waste one more day of our national life on another deadwood.”

He continued, “Therefore, Nigeria urgently needs a turning point. Everybody—including even some of Tinubu’s close associates—knows that he does not represent the future. Some things should be left where they were buried, and that includes Tinubu’s presidential dreams…. Under Buhari, Nigeria plunged badly on every index of social progress and national development. Buhari’s atrocious presidency has been an affliction tantamount to divine punishment. We have over-suffered. After Buhari’s presidency, that affliction of leadership must not rise a second time!

“After the monumental disaster called Buhari, Nigeria cannot afford another leader whose driving motivation for the presidency is to merely fulfil a lifelong dream. Tinubu has a right to pursue his ambition but not at the expense of poor and long-suffering Nigerians already counting down to the days when Buhari’s nuisance will be escorted out of Aso Rock. The 2023 election should be a turning point. Recruiting another bumbler as president jeopardises that chance. We can all agree that Nigeria deserves a better candidate beyond the cheap propaganda retailed in some narrow-minded media and parroted by those who do not listen to their own thoughts before mouthing them.”

Further, there is likewise in Nigeria more pressure on Tinubu, Atiku as age leads criteria for Presidency in 2023. The two of the leading aspirants in the 2023 presidential election, Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar will be in their 70s by 2023. Mr Tinubu will be 71 years old in 2023, while Alhaji Atiku Abubakar will be 77. The recent comment by President Muhammadu Buhari that at his age, he is struggling with the rigour of the office, has brought the question of age into the front burner of the national discourse on the 2023 race, and it’s a great eye opener.

“In previous elections, rotation by region and religion were two predominant factors during elections. But the experience of Nigerians with President Buhari, who has had a series of visits to the hospital and long delays in government response which earned him the nickname “Baba go slow” have made age a focal point …. Despite the issue of rotation, Atiku, a northerner is expected to clinch the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, while Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State already has political machinery mobilizing for him across the country. If these two are given the tickets, if one of them replaces Mr Buhari who would be in his 80s by the time he leaves office; this would be a sad story for Nigeria.

At 69 years old, coupled with the recent hospitalization and the EndSARS resentment, Mr Tinubu appears to be unpopular on social media, and such promise or threat, whichever, to sustain Buhari’s mission, vision, direction and mentality of governance is un-called for!

References
https://theparadise.ng/i-will-continue-from-where-buhari-stopped-if-elected-as-president-in-2023-says-tinubu/

https://dailytrust.com/nigerias-next-president-should-be-a-woman

Meet female academician set to take over from Buhari https://wp.me/pbzY48-bmT

https://punchng.com/nigeria-needs-strong-electoral-reform-before-2023/

https://punchng.com/tinubus-presidency-affliction-must-not-rise-a-second-time/