A university don, Dr. Suleiman Musa, has cautioned President Buhari that those who celebrated his condition when he was ill should not be considered as his successors.
This is coming following the debate about who will become President Buhari’s preferred choice to fly the flag of the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, APC.
Reactions have continued to pour in over Buhari’s preferred candidate even as the president has refused to name any individual as his anointed.
But Dr. Suleiman Musa, a renowned political sociologist based in Zaria, Kaduna State said Buhari would need to look at how some of those clamoring to take over from him celebrated his health situation years back.
A statement from the university don made available to newsmen said:
“President Buhari reserves the right to name his preferred candidate for his party.
“While I do not wish to interfere with such inalienable right, I wish to remind him to be wary of the set of politicians who were celebrating while he was sick and hospitalized in London. ”
According to him, “Some highly placed politicians in Nigeria did not believe that President Buhari will be alive today. They were already celebrating while Nigerians were praying for his quick recovery.
“Others were even positioning to be nominated as Vice President in case of any eventuality. Mr. President should not allow such politicians with a history of betrayal on their shoulders to succeed him.
Furthermore, Dr. Musa assured Nigerians that the impending announcement of the President should not be misconstrued as any form of imposition. Rather he is merely announcing his preference to allow the party to go through the usual consensus and face the elections like other candidates from opposition parties.
” The process of electoral competition which is the beauty of democracy will not be tampered with or undermined. Nigerians should expect that when the primaries are over, campaigns will go on normally to sell and expose the qualities and capabilities of the individual to the entire nation and the international community,” the don said.