Nigeria: Tofa - Parties Should Allow Open Contests for Presidential Tickets to Test Aspirants' Acceptability

6 July 2014
interview

Alhaji Bashir Tofa, a chieftain of All Progressives Congress, was presidential candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention at the famous June 12, 1993 presidential election. He was a member of the now nonoperational All Nigeria Peoples Party, which had joined other parties to form the APC merger. Despite the myriad problems of the country, Tofa believes all would be well with Nigeria if the right solutions are applied. He discusses some of these solutions with Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano. Excerpts:

As a member of All Nigeria Peoples Party in 2012, you said President Goodluck Jonathan had the right to seek re-election in 2015 if he so desired, and stressed that the best anybody could do was to mobilise and wait for him at the polls. Now as a member of All Progressives Congress, do you think your party has mobilised enough to effectively challenge - or perhaps - defeat the president in 2015?

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