Minister of Works, Babatunde Fashola, has expressed his views on 2023 presidential election and the aspiration of his predecessor as Governor in Lagos State, Bola Tinubu.
Fashola is a product of Tinubu but there have occasionally been feud between them.
Besides, some have claimed that he too might be interested in the 2023 battle.
Speaking on ‘Arise Television’ on Saturday, however, Fashola said he did not envy anyone occupying the position of the Nigerian President.
Besides, he noted, it is better to wait till January 2022 to really know Tinubu’s position.
“As far as I am aware, nobody has said, ‘I want to be Nigeria’s President’. There are people speaking for people. Nobody has come out, we are not at that stage yet.
“I can’t venture out and say that I will speak for X or Y. Let the person come out and say, ‘I want to serve Nigeria’.
“It pains me sometimes when we see that very important job and responsibility to, ‘My people said’. I think the whole sense of it should be that, ‘I am able, I have looked at myself, give me your problem, you go to sleep’.
“I saw him (Tinubu) last week, he didn’t tell me he is running for office and to the best of my knowledge, the last statement he made on it is that people will know in January. He has issued a statement that, ‘I will speak in January, so let us wait till January.”
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