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Former minister of
the Federal Capital Territory, Nasir el-Rufai, has said that Nuhu
Ribadu, former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, has all it takes to become the president of Nigeria.

Speaking at a
leadership forum for the youth yesterday in Abuja, Mr el-Rufai blamed
our nation’s economic failure on bad leadership. “Anyone that has been
in the corridors of power in those days should retire and allow people
like my brother, Nuhu Ribadu, to rule,” he said.

“I am not campaigning for anybody, but you know where my heart is.”

He lamented that
young people have not participated fully in the politics of the nation,
except in their use as thugs for political parties. He noted that since
2006, when the last voter registration exercise took place, about 16
million people have reached the voting age of 18.

“It was young
people that got Obama elected in America,” he said. “Young people
should do it in Nigeria and elect their own Obama.”

Pat Utomi, founder
of the Lagos Business School, agreed that a failure of leadership in
past administrations was the nation’s foremost problem.

“What this means is that our future does not lie in past leadership,
otherwise, we will have the same result in our future as we had in our
past.”