According to Agbaje during an interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, monitored by SaharaReporters, Nigeria is in a state of war as every system in the country has collapsed.
Former Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Jimi Agbaje has said whoever will succeed President Muhammadu Buhari must be ready for post-war governance.
According to Agbaje during an interview on Channels TV on Wednesday, monitored by SaharaReporters, Nigeria is in a state of war as every system in the country has collapsed.
He said, “In the spirit of equity, justice, and fair play, that rotation will go round, but it is obvious that the two major parties one has decided to murder religion, the other has decided to murder ethnicity, so we’re stuck with them.
“We are in a country today; we are like a country that is at war and whoever is going to come to take over in 2023 must be ready for post-war governance. It’s like a country where everything has collapsed, security, every system.
“I laugh when people ask, why is the judiciary like this? Why are police like this? Why is INEC (Independent National Electoral Commission) like this? And I say people are looking for an island of purity in a system that has more or less collapsed, there’s no such thing.”
He advised Nigerians to look beyond the All Progressives Congress and PDP to a competent candidate that is trustworthy and ready to reset Nigeria.
“Ordinarily it shouldn’t matter but what Nigeria is going to need based on the contraction that we have now in all the parties, I suppose there are two to three major parties, is to look for people who accept that we are at war and what Nigeria needs is a reset.
“We are going to have a leader people trust because we are going to need to make sacrifices. We are in big trouble everywhere and the only way we can move forward is to have a leader that people trust that the leader is there for them, not for themselves, himself or herself, that’s where we are at this point in time, it’s a serious situation we found ourselves,” he added.
According to him, it is time for Nigerians to ask questions from political parties about what they have for them and the country.
“It’s not about stories, propaganda, it’s not a game about religion or ethnicity, we have gone past that and they are carrying that badge one way or the other. At least, the two major parties are carrying that badge and they are ruling and they have to rule with it but then they have got to earn the trust of the people,” he said.
He, therefore, urged political leaders who want to govern the country to accept that there is a problem with the Muslim-Muslim ticket being pushed by the ruling APC and rotational presidency, and not try to defend it but find a solution to the problem.