How Nigeria’s Presidents are selected – Governor Shettima

The Borno State Governor, Kasim Shettima has observed that nobody who ever aspired for the Presidency in Nigeria ever achieved their aim, adding that those who became President were invited.

Ina statement by his spokesperson, Isa Gusau, the governor said only a “mad man” would blindly aspire to become Nigeria’s President.

According to Shettima, “Only a mad man blindly aspires to be Nigeria’s President if history is anything to go by. From 1979 to date, nobody with aspiration for the presidency has achieved it.

“President Shagari was invited to contest without aspiration in 1979; President Obasanjo was invited to contest without aspiration in 1999; President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was invited to contest without aspiration in 2007; President Jonathan who eventually succeeded

“Yar’Adua was also invited to become Vice President without aspiration. Even President Buhari with his electrifying popularity didn’t win the presidency in his 2003, 2007 and 2011 aspirations until in 2015 when he was invited to contest.

“This is the complexity of Nigeria’s politics and any person with the slightest wisdom must learn from history and face his business of the day.

“I am not the ungrateful and not the blindly ambitious type and I thank Allah for his grace and pray that I succeed in positively reversing the Borno story.”