The demographic profiles of new appointees also help people to situate a new government’s direction and to get a sense of the identity categories it seeks to privilege or demote.
“If not for Nigerian bad belle, MKO Abiola would have been president, and with me as president.”
He said the next president must be able to hold a conversation with Nigerians on broad issues concerning the nation.
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Mr Shonekan who died at the age of 85 in Lagos, was described as a peacemaker who salvaged Nigeria from sinking.
Friends and former colleagues of IBB maintained that he is a loyal friend and a nation builder.
The ex-military dictator said his regime is more saintly the subsequent democratic administrations that have been condoning corruption.
