Senator Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate, on Wednesday, June 1, has appealed to delegates of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to eschew monetary benefits ahead of the presidential primaries slated for June 6 and 7.
Lawan made this appeal via a letter issued to the delegates while appealing for fairness and a thorough check into the backgrounds of aspirants in order to elect a credible candidate ahead of the 2023 elections.
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The Senate President urged;
To all delegates across Nigeria, I beseech you to put pecuniary and monetary incentives aside and seriously consider what is ‘in the greater good.’ As you make your decision in picking the flag bearer of our party, I urge you to seek for a leader and not a politician.
I ask you to choose a person that will lead and not rule Nigerians; one that will be understanding, tolerant, fair, honest, and progressive. A leader that comes with absolutely ‘No-Baggage.’
Lawan further reiterated the need to ensure thorough scrutiny of aspirants’ backgrounds in order to ensure the most credible aspirant represents the APC in the 2023 elections.
A vital component of any logical, efficient and authentic evaluation of a person involves assessing past behavior. The key here is that one’s best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. If one has always done something a certain way, they are likely to do that same thing in the same manner in the future.
The same goes for how one navigates or pillages in leadership. Thus, as you, the delegates, are determining the APC party presidential flag bearer, it is important to look at past behavior to elicit what behaviors, avarice and rapacity candidates have exhibited in the past. It is important for you to access all candidates along this parameter.
