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Sections News Editorial/Opinion Cover Choice Arts & Life Business Politics Sports   Subscription Form Click here       Daily Independent Online.         * Friday,July 16, 2004. Mbadiwe supports Anenih on Obasanjo’s successor By Bolaji Adepegba Senior Correspondent, Lagos   Former Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Congo, Chief Greg Mbadiwe, has said that the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, was right to have said that President Olusegun Obasanjo would decide who would succeed him. Giving a clear perspective on Anenih’s position in a statement in Lagos, Mbadiwe said that Anenih’s statement should not be misconstrued to mean that the PDP was planning to give the country its next president through any undemocratic means. He explained that the political achievements of the President, his stature, as well as his goodwill, if used to back any candidate in a democratic process, would ensure victory for such a candidate. Mbadiwe said Anenih’s bluntness on the issue should not becloud the logic behind it, neither should it be misunderstood. Commenting on the speculation that the Constitution could be tampered with to allow a five-year single term for the President, under which President Obasanjo may run anew for a fresh term, Mbadiwe said there was nothing wrong in it. According to him, Nigerians will decide at the right time whether Obasanjo has done well enough to get a third term if he wishes to present himself. Mbadiwe added that the economic policies of the President, his image laundering efforts and his drive for foreign investments needed a sustenance that only a candidate who has graduated from what he called “the Obasanjo School of Leadership and Governance” can handle. The former ambassador, who was also a director in Legacy House the President’s re-election campaign organization  said that Obasanjo’s statement that the PDP had not yet zoned the presidency was just a fatherly bid to calm frayed nerves in some sections of the polity where the zoning controversy is going on. He added that much time was needed for the country to evolve an arrangement that would be considered fair by all.       Copyright� 2002. All Rights Reserved Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.dailyindependentng.com e-mail: [email protected]

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