{"id":61196,"date":"2022-03-14T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-why-i-want-to-be-nigerias-president-saraki"},"modified":"2022-03-14T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:11:06","slug":"2023-why-i-want-to-be-nigerias-president-saraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-why-i-want-to-be-nigerias-president-saraki","title":{"rendered":"2023: Why I want to be Nigeria\u2019s President \u2013 Saraki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Immediate past Senate President, Abubakar Saraki, has given reasons he should be elected as Nigeria\u2019s president in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki, speaking on Sunday Politics, a Channels TV programme, said he knows the issues affecting Nigeria and can reach out across the ethnic and religious divides.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe I have what it takes to lead Nigeria. I am not someone who shies away from taking up challenges. I\u2019m not someone who does not know the issues or someone who does not have the energy and vibrancy to address those issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore importantly, I am someone that can reach out across the political divide, based on my antecedents. I am someone who can reach out across the ethnicity divide and across the religious divide,\u201d Saraki said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Senate President disclosed that he will officially declare his intention to run for president in 2023 after the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, decides which geopolitical zone will get its presidential ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Saraki said, \u201cWe\u2019ll have a NEC (PDP) meeting on Tuesday. Hopefully, the guidelines will come out which will tell us definitely where the whistle would be blown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShort of anything that stops an individual, I will definitely be announcing sometime before the end of the month, my intention to vie for president. At the moment, we are just doing consultation. Formal declaration will come in due course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Immediate past Senate President, Abubakar Saraki, has given reasons he should be elected as Nigeria\u2019s president in 2023. 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