Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, the former Special Assistant to the former president Shehu Shagari on National Assembly Liaison, Tanko Yakasai, has revealed that the former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu and the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have what it takes to govern Nigeria.
Yakasai said both the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Tinubu and the Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Atiku have the requisite experience and capacity to become Nigeria’s President in 2023.
The elder statesman said this during a chat with Daily Post, he pointed out that Nigeria needs a president who can ensure unity, address the issue of unemployment, and other challenges facing the country.
Responding to a question on if Atiku and Tinubu are better presidential candidates, Yakasai said: “No doubt about that, even their background and experience is a testament to the fact that both of them can be the president.
“Tinubu and Atiku have a history of marching across the board in Nigeria. They have supporters all over the place. What the country needs now is a leader who will strengthen the unity among the people, address the problems of poverty, unemployment, insufficient power, lack of industrial hub, and ensure agriculture.
“So these two have the capacity, experience and if they agree to any one of them has what it takes to govern.”
He also stressed that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, can’t break up Nigeria.
Yakasai insisted that Kanu can’t take the “Igbos out of Nigeria.”
He said: “In the first place, I regard Nnamdi Kanu as an irritant who is just trying to draw attention to himself. He is just trying to survive on the pages of newspapers; he has no base.
“If he has a base he would form a political party, let it be clear that nobody can take the Igbos out of Nigeria.
“With my experience and knowledge of Nigeria, I believe Nnamdi Kanu does not know that he can’t exchange the Igbos spread across Nigeria, they have a stake in Nigeria.
“There is no moving business in Nigeria other than the one in the South and you will perceive they are doing their economic activities freely.
“By 1970 after the civil war, the Igbos were only given 20 pounce as compensation but now they are among the leading billionaires in Nigeria.”
