By Ezeocha Nzeh
2023 President hopeful, Prince Adewole Adebayo has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to to use the opportunity of assenting his signature to the reworked Electoral Bill to score a prepare to leave office leave a lasting legacy as he prepares to leave office in 2023
Adebayo, who is the President Kaftan TV and founder of the Law House, admonished President Muhammadu Buhari to assent to the reworked electoral act amendment bill as it’s crucial to credible 2023 election, adding that the president would be doing himself good to expeditiously assent to the bill as a legacy that he would be remembered for years to come.
It would be recalled that opposition federal lawmakers in the National Assembly also asked the president to assent to the reworked Electoral Act amendment Bill 2022 without further delay, even as they raised concerns that some stakeholders have intensified lobbying to persuade the President to withhold assent to the bill for the second time.
Prince Adebayo, who has officially indicated his interest to contest for nation’s Presidential election in 2023, under the platform of the yet to be registered mega party, the National Consultative Front (NCfront), blamed the lawmakers for the numerous challenges facing the country, adding that their selfish interests is causing Nigeria the golden opportunity to make history.
‘”In October 2021, I was at a hotel in Abuja when we held a conference on electoral act and the things we canvassed that the National Assembly should put in the electoral bill because of their selfish interest they did not incorporate many of them.
“Even what they have put which is for them to survive the over lordship of their Governors, the Governor’s kept lobbying and those who have self centered ideas in the presidency also lobbied the President not to sign.
“The bill was kicked back to the national Assembly, they removed the things the president complained about and have sent it to the president.”
He said whether the president is going to sign it depends on whether he wants to be the president of the people or the president of politicians.
“It is a question whether President Buhari wants to leave a legacy that people can remember him for that I can not help him with but what I can say to the Nigerian people is that we need a new electoral act, the bill sent to the President is not one of the best but is an improvement over the one we are using now.
He said he would be the consensus candidate of the coalition that would emerge to displace the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the coming general elections.
He added that Nigerians who want good governance are in the majority, adding that he has consulted widely so as to form a coalition that would remove the two major parties.
Adebayo explained that his decision not to run on any of the two major political parties was because he was not ready to manage their respective breaches of the public trust which they carried out in governance.
