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Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has given an insight into President Buhari’s reaction to his plan to contest the 2023 election and succeed him.
In an interview with State House correspondents, Tinubu said of the President:
“He is a democrat. He didn’t ask me to stop, he didn’t ask me not to attempt and pursue my ambition.
“It is a lifelong ambition. You are running a democratic dispensation and you must adopt the principles and values and virtues of democracy,” Tinubu said.
He dismissed the calls in some quarters that he should remain a kingmaker instead of nurturing Presidential ambition.
According to the APC chieftain, he is a Nigerian and he has the right to be the king himself, not just a king maker.
“I have never seen where it is written in the rule book anywhere in any country that a kingmaker cannot be a king unless he commits murder. I want to pursue my ambition without the title of a kingmaker,”
The APC stalwart said he was in the Presidential Villa to formally inform the President of his desire to run for President in 2023.
”I can say categorically yes! I have informed the President of my intention but I have not informed Nigerians yet.
”I am still consulting and I have no problem consulting and I have not set a parameter of limitation to the extent of consultation.
“You will soon hear what you want to hear all you want to hear, a categorical declaration; you’ve…
