{"id":51089,"date":"2021-08-06T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=51089"},"modified":"2021-08-06T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T10:14:11","slug":"breaking-ibb-rules-out-atiku-tinubu-from-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/breaking-ibb-rules-out-atiku-tinubu-from-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: IBB Rules Out Atiku, Tinubu From 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 25.6000003814697px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 35px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: #444444;\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.3; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">says new president should be in his sixties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have ruled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s by the next election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Although IBB as Babangida is fondly called did not in any way mention their names as ineligible for the nation\u2019s number one seat, he however suggested that individuals in their 60s should be the focus of Nigerians as potential presidential candidates in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">By the next general election in 2023, Atiku, who is 75 this year would be 77, while Tinubu, who marked an official 68th birthday in March, would have turned 70 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Babangida, who himself will be 80 on August 17 this year, was confident that the nation is endowed with both human and natural resources, hinted at a few individuals, whom he said were in their 60s, had the capacity to become president and could effectively run the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Speaking in a sneak preview of a two-part series of an exclusive interview to be aired on the Arise News Channel this morning, focusing on the State of the Nation, IBB said one of the reasons Nigeria has refused to progress and achieve the dreams of the founding fathers was because Nigerians no longer believed in the future of their own country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">The former leader, who accused the Nigerian people of creating and at the same time, destroying their own country, identified bad leadership as yet a major reason for the socio-economic challenges facing Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Talking about the presidential hopefuls he had in mind, IBB said they were persons in their 6os with contacts across the nation and who had been traversing the geo-political zones marketing their acceptability and capacity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Specifically on the importance of leadership in nation-building and where he thought the likes of Atiku and Tinubu no longer fit the bill, IBB said: \u201cIf you get a good leadership that links with the people and tries to talk with the people; not talking on top of the people, then we would be okay.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>\u201cI have started visualising a good Nigerian leader. That is, a person, who travels across the country and has a friend virtually everywhere he travels to and he knows at least one person that he can communicate with.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">\u201cThat is a person, who is very verse in economics and is also a good politician, who should be able to talk to Nigerians and so on. I have seen one, or two or three of such persons already in his sixties.\u201d<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>But when asked if the person could emerge victorious in the 2023 presidential election, the Minna-born former military leader said, \u201cI believe so if we can get him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Responding to a question on whether or not he still believed in the future of Nigeria, the former military president, who turns 80 on August 17, 2021, said: \u201cI do believe in the future of Nigeria, but Nigerians don\u2019t believe in the future of their country. They created and they destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">Reiterating his belief in the future of Nigeria and urging Nigerians to remain patriotic, Babangida, who claimed to feeling good as he was about to turn 80 years, with gratitude to God for sparing his life, advised Nigerians to go for the person that has what it takes to transform the country when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">IBB served as head of state between 1985 and 1993. Born in Niger State, he received military training in Nigeria, India, Great Britain, and the United States. He rose through the ranks and was known for his courage, having also played a major role in suppressing an attempted coup in 1976, when he walked into a rebel-held radio station unarmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">After Murtala Mohammed became the military head of state in 1975, Babangida joined his Supreme Military Council, and as military president after taking over power on August 27, 1985, he introduced economic policies such as the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), that altered the course of the nation and liberalise the economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444;\">At 80 on the 17th, Babangida is one of the leaders like Muhammadu Buhari who have dominated Nigeria\u2019s political space since 1966.<br style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\" \/>Credit: Thisday<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), might have ruled out a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s by the next election.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,624],"tags":[3596,1631],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-51089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-news","category-politics","tag-general-ibrahim-badamasi-babangida","tag-ibb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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