President Muhammadu Buhari has said he will not name who will succeed him in 2023. Receiving members of the group at the State House, Abuja, Buhari pointed out that dabbling into the issue of succession would only create problems for his administration.

The group was led on the visit by its convener, Dr Bolarenwa Bolaji.

The President said, “Succession is very funny because if I did find anybody, I will create more problems for him or her. Let those who want to be President try as much as I did.”

Buhari told the group to seize the opportunities provided by their education to reform Nigeria and bequeath a better country to the next generations.

He added, “A lot of our young people are taking things for granted. Imagine contesting elections three times and ending up in the Supreme Court; it takes a lot of conviction and hard work. But, people take things for granted; they say I want to be the President. As if I just closed my eyes and opened them and I got it.”

Buhari said the Almajeri system, which is prevalent in the North, needed collaborative roles by government at all levels to address the problem.

He disclosed that since 2015, more than N1tn had been injected into basic education through the Universal Basic Education Commission and other organs of government.

“We also released N25bn to public universities to pay earned academic allowances to lecturers. Of course, you are all aware of the rot we uncovered in the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board and many other institutions.”

The President further made projections on what to expect in his second term.

He said, “In the next four years, we shall continue with the work to transform the sector bearing in mind our high population growth rate, financial challenges and security issues especially those grossly affected areas. Simply put, our focus and agenda can only be sustained if we have educated and secured society.”

He added that anyone who wanted to become the President of Nigeria must work for it just like he did three times before he finally succeeded in 2015 at the fourth attempt.

Buhari said this on Tuesday in reaction to a request by a group, the Progressive in Academics, who urged him to groom young Nigerians to succeed him.
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