Politics
2023 Presidency: It’s Shameful We’re Debating Tribe Not Competence -Bugaje
- The ex-lawmaker cautioned Nigerians against political opinions while speaking on Sunday, stating that policies that benefit the next generation were required.
Dr. Usman Bugaje, a former member of the House of Representatives, has expressed concern about the debate about the zone from which Nigeria’s next president should emerge.
He clarified that competence should be used to decide who leads the nation, not tribe or region.
He spoke at the University of Lagos Muslim Alumni’s 26th Annual Pre-Ramadan Lecture, titled “While Tribe and Tongue Can Differ: Interrogating Nigeria’s Nationhood.”
“The problem we are facing is not special to Nigeria,” he said. It’s understandable, given how colonialism influenced the development of many African countries.
“Diversity and resource sharing must be managed. We’ve muddled up a lot of stuff. We’ll have to come back and explain a lot of things.
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“The elite that needs to guide the country is not clear on a number of issues. We tend to confuse unity and uniformity. There is no society that is completely homogenous.
“There is a lack of trust. We have failed to develop an elite consensus. You find conflict where there should be none. Sometimes, we just denigrate each other because we don’t understand ourselves.
Bugaje
“We need to put policies that can help us in place. The National Orientation Agency could have done a lot of work. I cannot understand why NOA can’t be used to talk to citizens.
“The elite must come together and create a consensus on some of the big issues in this country.
“We should not be led by the limited vision of politicians. Most of their visions do not go beyond the next election. We must be thinking of the next generation.
“Debating who is going to be president is silly. This is primitive, it is a shame. How Nigeria can realise its potential and others are issues we should be debating.
“If you take a flight, you are after competence and safety and not the tribe of the pilot.”
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