Rev Okotie returns, tells Atiku, Tinubu to step down for him in 2023

Perennial presidential contestant, Reverend Chris Okotie wants to throw his hat into the ring again in his quest to become president of Nigeria.

The founder of the HouseHold of God Church has therefore called on presidential candidates of the major political parties in the country to step down for him to succeed President Muhammad Buhari in 2023.

The clergyman who spoke to journalists on Sunday at his church in Ikeja, Lagos State said that he is the best person to lead the country at this point in time.

He said, “I want to appeal to all presidential candidates to withdraw from the race and allow me to come in as the interim president. I want to implore Asiwaju to support my government for the betterment of the country and I also want to tell Obi that the system that introduced him cannot take him anywhere, because he cannot operate in the system we have now. All the presidential candidates should support me to succeed President Buhari as the interim president.

“We must also rise above tribe and religion because there is an imbalance in the country and we are not practising federalism. Instead, what we are practising is a presidential system of government. Since 1999, things have been declining because the presidential system of government we are practising has failed us.

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“We must get rid of the National and State Assemblies because maintaining each member cost the country billions of naira. Some of the standing committees at both assemblies are not useful to the country, they are only representing themselves, not the populace.

“For the best of the country, both assemblies should be scrapped and the money for maintaining them should be used for something else. What we have in Nigeria today is the government of the party, by the party and for the party.

“Ministers and the Commissioners should also be expunged because Nigeria’s democracy has been hijacked by the elite for their interest and they are deceiving the downtrodden who don’t know anything. And the most important of all is our constitution. It should be changed to a people-oriented constitution, not the military one we have now. After the change, we can then restructure the country for the better.”

Okotie first ran for the position of President in 2003 under the Justice Party (JP) after he lost out during the National Democratic Party (NDP) primaries elections. He ran again in 2007 on the platform of a party he founded, Fresh Democratic Party and lost again.
He also contested the presidential election in 2011, and lost once again.

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