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Okotie reveals wish to succeed Buhari, plan for ‘Yahoo Boys’

Chris Okotie, one-time pop singer and, currently, the pastor of the Household of God Church, says he wishes to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari.

TheCornet reports that Okotie had run, albeit unsuccessfully, for the office of president three times. He, as the presidential candidate of the Justice Party, lost to President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003. Okotie also lost to President Umaru Yar’Adua, and Goodluck Jonathan when he re-contested the presidency in 2007 and 2011 respectively.

Speaking to journalists, in commemoration of his 63rd birthday, Okotie said he was the “solution” to Nigeria’s challenges.

“I want to appeal to all presidential candidates to withdraw from the race and allow me to come in as the interim president. I want to implore Asiwaju (Bola Tinubu) to support my government for the betterment of the country and I also want to tell (Peter) Obi that the system that introduced him cannot take him anywhere, because he cannot operate in the system we have now.

All the presidential candidates should support me to succeed President Buhari as the interim president.

“We must also rise above tribe and religion because there is an imbalance in the country and we are not practising federalism instead, what we are practising is a presidential system of government. Since 1999, things have been declining because the presidential system of government we are practising has failed us.”

“We must get rid of the National and State Assemblies because maintaining each member cost the country billions of naira. Some of the standing committees at both assemblies are not useful to the country, they are only representing themselves, not the populace.

“For the best of the country, both assemblies should be scrapped and the money for maintaining them should be used for something else. What we have in Nigeria today is the government of the party, by the party and for the party.

“Ministers and the Commissioners should also be expunged because Nigeria’s democracy has been hijacked by the elite for their interest and they are deceiving the downtrodden who don’t know anything. And the most important of all is our constitution. It should be changed to a people-oriented constitution, not the military one we have now. After the change, we can then restructure the country for the better.”

Okotie adds that his policies, as president, would include ‘redirecting the steps of the youth who are into internet fraudsters and turned them to better persons in the society and empower them.’ professional associations constitutionally to acquire legislative power as a replacement for the removal of the legislature from our political system.

“And we should also embrace the concept of aboriginal democracy, that is a government from the people, for the people and with the people. This is distinct from the current experience of political parties which is the government of the party, the party and for the party.

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