FORMER presidential media aide, Doyin Okupe, says former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida considers him a potential candidate for the presidency in 2023.
“I believe when IBB was making that speech, he was talking about me. I haven’t spoken with him in a long time, I agree with all his points,” Okupe said this morning when he appeared on a live television programme on Arise News TV.
Babangida had during a recent interview said corruption under subsequent governments is far worse than his regime’s.
He also said the country’s next president should be in his 60’s, adding that he has some persons in mind.
“I have started visualising a good Nigerian leader, a person who travels in this country and as a friend virtually everywhere he travels,” Babangida told Arise TV in an exclusive interview days ago.
“He know at least one person that he can communicate with. A person who is very vast in economic and a good politician who should be able to talk to Nigerians.
“I have seen one or two or three already in their 60s,” the military strategist further announced.
And Okupe said the criteria laid out by Babangida fits his profile perfectly and that the ex-junta leader must have had him in mind while reeling out the qualities for the next Nigerian leader.
“I am part of the three individuals IBB was talking about. I am the most prepared person for the job,” the 69-year-old boasted.
