A Member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Shina Peller, has called on Nigerians, ahead of the 2023 general elections, not to pick the next President based on irrelevant qualities that have not resulted in great leadership in the past and present administrations, .
Hon. Peller urged Nigerians to rather put in place a strong Institution now, that would lay down the desired qualities to look out for in voting in the next President of the country.
He said in an Instagram interview with Officialsamolatunji: “We need to build an Institution now, we do not need to take any single person, and be saying we want to now rally round that person. Let us form an Institution, let us identify a criteria, and let us see who meets up with the criteria.
“There is no Institution that has set up the criteria yet. If the criteria says the next President should be Christian, is Asiwaju a Christian?
“We have made the mistake two times. There was a time in Nigeria when President Obasanjo was brought from prison, and everybody was saying he is the best person that could do this, and we started to run around him. The same thing happened to President Buhari. Everybody was saying Muhammadu Buhari is a saint, he is not corrupt, and then everyone starts to run around him, I believe this must stop.”
