‘Step Down for New Generation Leaders’ –IBB Blasts President Buhari
Nigeria’s former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida (IBB), has lent his voice to the various groups’ call for President Buhari to give up running for second term.
Ibrahim Babangida’s advice is coming barely two weeks after former President Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote President Buhari an explosive open letter.
Speaking through his media aide Prince Kassim Afegbua in a statement released on Sunday, Ibrahim Babangida who lamented over the blood flow in the country, which he said was a thing of irony that the country that himself and other Nigerians fought to keep together, told President Buhari to complete his first term and allow a new crop of generation of leaders to take control of the affairs of the nation.
Excerpts from the statement read;
“In the fullness of our present realities, we need to cooperate with President Muhammadu Buhari to complete his term of office on May 29th, 2019 and collectively prepare the way for new generation leaders to assume the mantle of leadership of the country.
While offering this advice, I speak as a stakeholder, former president, concerned Nigerian and a patriot who desires to see new paradigms in our shared commitment to get this country running. .
While saying this also, I do not intend to deny President Buhari his inalienable right to vote and be voted for, but there comes a time in the life of a nation, when personal ambition should not override national interest,” Bababgida stated.
He added that: “In 2019 and beyond, we should come to a national consensus that we need new breed leadership with requisite capacity to manage our diversities and jump-start a process of launching the country on the super highway of technology-driven leadership in line with the dynamics of modern governance. .
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It is short of saying enough of this analogue system. Let’s give way for digital leadership orientation with all the trappings of consultative, constructive, communicative, interactive and utility-driven approach where everyone has a role to play in the process of enthroning accountability and transparency in governance.”
