Nollywood legend Pete Edochie has stated that presidential hopefuls like as the All Progressives Congress’s National Leader, Bola Tinubu, cannot be elected president of Nigeria because they are too elderly.
Edochie told BBC Igbo that the former governor of Lagos State has been in power for a long time and should consider quitting.
The elderly actor also bemoaned Southeasterners’ political marginalization and failure to produce a president since the country’s restoration to democracy.
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He believes that the Asiwaju of Lagos should step down so that younger people who are healthier and more competent of leading the country ahead may take over.
He said, “Many people like Tinubu are too old and too weak to run for the presidency. He has been in power for a long time until he was made the leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
“But he should leave the position for those who are younger and healthier. Let’s be honest.
“Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba are the major ethnic groups in the country. Only once in the history of Nigeria has an Igbo person become the head of state in Nigeria.
“Why has power not returned to the Southeast people? Is there a plot by the political elites to sideline the South-East? I’ve lived in the North. I speak Hausa. But it’s long overdue for Nigeria to have a leader of Igbo extraction”.
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