Since Bola Tinubu won the recently ended presidential election, Bode George, a former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, warned on Monday that he would move to any country of his choice.
The PDP leader spoke while participating in a programme on Channels TV. Tinubu is the presidential candidate for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election on February 25.
George had declared he would leave Nigeria if Tinubu is to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari before the former Lagos governor was announced as the nation’s next leader of Nigeria.
Speaking with Channels after the Independent National Election Commission, INEC, named Tinubu President-elect, the former PDP chairman maintained his stance, saying it is his intrinsic right to live wherever in the world.
Remember that if Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, won the election, he had promised to move to a foreign country, specifically Togo.
However, he told Arise TV that he was going to wait on the judiciary to decide on the outcome of the election.
READ ALSO: Man, 20, gets 6 months jail for constituting public nuisance
“I didn’t hide my feelings: I said if this fellow (Tinubu) becomes the President, I will lose my interest politically.
“I have the right as a Nigerian to live anywhere I want. And I am saying it publicly that I am ready to retire from partisan politics. This is my own personal conviction that they don’t have the capacity, the ability to run this nation.
“I am almost eighty years old, I can decide to live the rest of my life in peace. Remember, I was in the navy, I have been in almost all parts of the world, and I can still decide to go back to any place and live my life in peace; a place where water, electricity, security and food would be available; that is all I need for my children and grandchildren to be well.
“All I need to do very soon is to quit and get out of partisan politics because all of my 25 years I have been struggling, fighting, trying to make this country work.
“When I will go I will decide, that’s my choice. The game is not yet over. We are going to wait on the outcome of the judiciary. I have relations here, it doesn’t mean I will never come back to Nigeria. If I said I am going to be out, that I am not going to be here, am I going to look for another job now? Nobody will employ me now”, he said.
Get Faster News Update On: WhatsApp and Telegram
All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without written permission from CONVERSEER. Read our Terms Of Use.
