2023: Asiwaju is the best candidate for the presidency, says Honorable Idimogu

Lawmaker representing Oshodi/Isolo Constituency in the Lagos State House of Assembly, Honourable (Dr) Jude Chukwuemeka Omobowale Idimogu, has stated that the Former Governor of Lagos, the Asiwaju of Yoruba land and Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is the best candidate for the position of the President in 2023. 

He said among those who have indicated interest in the presidency come 2023, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu remains in a class of his own. Recall that Tinubu has made his aspiration open and has also formally intimated the president, Muhwmmadu Buhari of his intention. 

In a Telephone conversation, Idimogu argued that any other group or individual jostling for the position of president in Nigeria come 2023 must work extra hard to upstage the strong man of Lagos politics as power is not given for dash. 

Idimogu said “For me, Asiwaju remains the best among all the candidates that have indicated interest in the position. I am an APC man till tomorrow even though I am from the southeast. So my prayer is that my leader should get it.” Answering the question on why Tinubu should aspire for the presidency when he knew the moral implication of such aspiration considering the fact that there is clamour for President of Igbo extraction, 

Idimogu said that there is no moral burden in politics. “There is no morality in politics, politics is a game of numbers. Let me tell you, it doesn’t work that way, nobody gives you power for dash. You must go for it, let the southeast, let them, if they truly want it, they must work hard for it, but you don’t do it with sympathy, morality does not work in politics,” Idimogu maintained. 

 

Commenting on the zoning of the presidency, Idimogu added “I am from the Southeast but in politics it is not served alakat, you have to work for it, lobby for it and do all you can to ensure it is given to you or your zone. But the way I see it personally, you know we have two major political parties, the APC and the PDP and remember the 17 governors of the South clamoured for power to shift to the south, but as it is now, no particular zone within the south has actually been mentioned, and when I said the governors, the governors are mixed up, both APC and PDP, and for me when you look at the way it is going, this is my own personal view, APC is highly dominated in the southwest and because politics is a game of numbers, it is likely APC will zone it to southwest, because they have the strength and number, that is just the truth. 

“However, PDP if they so wish, they can zone the presidency to the Southeast, the south-south has already enjoyed the last presidency, so for me, they are out of the game, so it remains southeast and southwest,” Idimogu said. 

He recommended that APC should zone the presidency to the southwest saying “My recommendation would be for APC to zone the presidency to the southwest while the PDP zones it to the Southeast, then the flag-bearers would face Nigerians who will decide which zone they want to give it to. That is the way I look at it.”

On his New Year message to his constituency, Lagosians and Nigerians, he said “People should be hopeful, let’s have trust in our government, let’s believe in them. One challenge we have as a people is that Nigerians don’t believe in their government and their representatives, but they should have a change of mind. 

“The citizens should turn a new leaf and see Nigeria as one entity that all of us can defend and be proud of and call our own, then things will change for the better,” Idimogu advised.