National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has assured Nigerians that the party will not sacrifice competence for zoning in choosing leaders for the National Assembly.
Tinubu in an interview with reporters in Abuja on Thursday, explained that the APC was determined to ensure that merit, character and qualities, which a leader must have, were not compromised.
The former Lagos State governor also assured Nigerians that the incoming administration would confront the economic downturn “aggressively.”
According to him, as a loyal party man, he will not do anything to cast the party in a bad light, noting that all the issues currently on the front burner would be looked at critically.
“The nation is expecting us to take a decisive leadership decision and make one meritoriously. Merit will not be compromised. You have to be competent, you have to possess the kind of character and attributes of a leader. We have to be pan-Nigerian and be a very solid character to lead the national assembly and that is what we are talking about.
“It’s not zoning to compromise quality of leadership and competence of an individual. I’m not to speak, not to go further on that. I believe we have a very determined party leadership; we have resolved to follow our leadership and the criteria set by that leadership, including myself, no, that we would not use zoning to determine and compromise the credibility, the qualification of an individual.”
He said what would be done would be all encompassing, noting that if zoning was used in a discriminatory manner, there was the probability that quality might be compromised.
“Let everybody aspire, just like we aspired, your cynicism, no matter what, so you predicted during our presidential primaries that we are going run into chaotic storm. We put those people to shame and we came out with the best. Expect the best from us always.”
On the economic situation, Tinubu said it was no doubt daunting but believed the APC had the capacity to deal with the issue.
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