Sen. Opeyemi Bamidele (APC-Ekiti) has revealed why he supports Sen. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’s (APC) National Leader, in his bid to become Nigeria’s next president.
On Thursday, he told newsmen in Abuja that Tinubu possessed the qualities necessary to deliver the kind of leadership that Nigeria requires at this time.
Bamidele, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, stated that he had not refused Tinubu’s backing and that he was not lying to support him.
“I have not denied him of my support and I have not pretended about my support for him.
“My relationship with Tinubu is not in contention and is something I never pretended about and even several of those who are contesting from the South-West also have their own relationships with him.
“This is because he had been there for a lot of us in the past and he is still there.
” I believe both on moral ground as well as out of conviction that he has got what it takes to provide the kind of leadership this country needs at a time like this.”
Bamidele however added that in supporting Tinubu, “we cannot use that as a basis not to recognise the rights of other stakeholders who want to aspire.
”But I believe that part of the essence of democracy is that there will be constructive engagement.
“I’m sure everybody is talking to somebody and before the date of this election, there will be some realignment of forces. But the right of everyone to contest is inalienable and it has to be respected.”
On the concept of consensus candidacy, Bamidele said that it wasn’t a bad concept, stating that what was more important was its implementation.
“Those who made the law, both the constitution of our party and even the new electoral law which also recognise consensus as one of the three means of selecting candidates by political parties, did not envisage a situation where a few persons will sit down and try to impose a candidate in the name of consensus.
“What we have to emphasise is the manner of implementation of consensus.
“What will be tyrannical about the supposed consensus process is where it now becomes an indirect manner of imposition.
“This is because some few people field those who they want and in the name of consensus, they end up forcing a candidate down the throat of every other person,” he said.
During Tinubu’s time as governor of Lagos State, Bamidele served as Commissioner for Youth and Sports Development and Special Adviser on Political Affairs, InsightnaijaTV reports.
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