A former Nigerian Senator have insisted that Nigerians will be happy to have Vice President Yemi Osibanjo as the successor to the incumbent, Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 rather than Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
Senator Isa Misau, who represented Bauchi Central Senatorial District in the 8th National Assembly, made this known in an interviews with Daily Independent.
Senator Misau, who is a chieftain of the party, revealed that while Tinubu who just returned from the United Kingdom (UK) where he had undergone surgery is also a good presidential material, Nigeria cannot afford to elect another person with health challenges as President in 2023.
"I see the Vice-President as somebody who is very vibrant, young and intelligent. He is also a professor of law and very loyal to President Muhammadu Buhari. Today if the president decides to say he is going to handover to Osinbajo, I don't think there will be any challenge and everyone will accept him, including the South West".
"If however, they said they want to handover to Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I will say no problem. I believe that this time in Nigeria, we need somebody with sound health both physically and mentally to be our president".
"We can't afford to take any risk with somebody that has health issues. Nigeria's problems will just drain you just the way it drained former president Umaru Yar'Adua. When Yar'Adua first came in, the sickness was not that much. But because of Nigeria's problems, it drained him and he died".
"If today, they said it is Osinbajo, everybody will be happy and things will go well for us," he said.