2019: Buhari remains Nigeria’s best option - CACOL boss
- The executive chairman, Centre Against Corruption and Open Leadership, Debo Adeniran, says President Muhammadu Buhari is the most credible candidate for 2019 presidential election
- Adeniran says that the president has done the best that any president can do, adding that Buhari is not nepotistic
- He also says that a sovereign national conference is what Nigeria needs, not restructuring
The executive chairman, Centre Against Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL), Debo Adeniran, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as the best option for the 2019 presidential election.
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According to Adeniran, Buhari remains the best among the pack of politicians eyeing the presidency, The Sun reports.
Legit.ng gathered that Adeniran described other politicians who have declared their intention to contest as 'interlopers'.
He said: "Personally, I have not heard that he (Buhari) has launched his re-election campaign. I only hear speculations that he has appointed some people into his campaign committee. But I can tell you that among those parading themselves as willing candidates; President Buhari stands head and shoulders above them.
"If there had been a more credible alternative I would have preferred such. But if it is these breed of politicians or interlopers then I think Buhari is more credible than all of them. What we should caution against is that the campaigns should not hinder governance."
Adeniran also said the president has done the best any president can do.
He said: "Buhari has done the best any president can do. People say he is nepotistic, but if he wanted to be nepotistic or tribal, he would have released Dasuki long ago, he wouldn’t have touched anybody from the north.
"Then he went to his constituency, the military and dealt with those alleged to have committed acts of corruption, those of them who made it impossible for the war against Boko Haram to be totally won.
"He could have hit the ground running but because of the influence of the political class on him, which he cannot ignore. A lot of political intrigues didn’t allow them to move."
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Speaking about President Buhari's rejection of restructuring, Adeniran said: "When we talk about system change, we are not talking of restructuring. It is as good as there is no structure on ground.
"The system needs to be changed because it is not working. It is when you have a system that you start talking about restructuring. The problem of Nigeria is that of nation building. What we have is a conglomerate of nations.
"We need to build a nation and to build a nation, you have to consider the opinion of every citizen and the way to do it is through a sovereign national conference. You say you are a federal republic but have a federal constitution that is run like a unitary constitution, you can’t make headway.
"Sovereign national conference is the true beginning of true nationhood, without it we will only be tolerating each other until everybody comes to the table and we discuss."
Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) challenged the Senate to disprove the allegations raised by the chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Itse Sagay, against its members.
Sagay had reportedly criticized members of the National Assembly for their expenditure which he said was adversely affecting the economy.
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Source: Legit.ng
