Junaid Mohammed, a Second Republic
lawmaker at the weekend said he will throw his weight behind Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC) if he decides to contest the presidency in 2023.
Speaking
in an interview with Daily Independent, Junaid said he will rather have
Tinubu to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari than any of the candidates
in the South East.
He said ” If Tinubu wants to be the President
of Nigeria and he asks for my advice, I will say go ahead because I will
rather have Tinubu as President than have some of the people in the
South-East who are ambitious and want to blackmail Nigeria into ceding
power to them”.
“I know that no matter what happens, even if Tinubu were to be drunk, he will be a better President than Goodluck Jonathan”.
“I also know that he is better than Governor Kayode Fayemi who is also nursing presidential ambition” he said.
