The Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Lekan Balogun has commended the various political parties for the successful completion of their presidential primaries.

He charged their candidates to go “into serious research and consultations”  on how a new Nigeria that would give every citizen a sense of belonging could emerge.

Balogun told the candidates that “the task ahead is very enormous and highly demanding in terms of intellect, political sagacity and ability to genuinely coordinate for result-oriented purposes.”

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The monarch, in a statement by his media aide, Oladele Ogunsola,  said: “To say that our country is at the crossroads is an understatement, we need a true, committed, passionate and compassionate leader, who would be ready to tackle headlong the myriad of challenges confronting us as a nation and capable of not making vain the labour of our past heroes.

“You will all agree with me that the people’s hope and expectations for the dawn of a new era come 2023 are very high and whoever God will grant the grace to lead the country by then must be very ready, prepared and imbued with a goal- getting ability to meet the people’s aspiration. All these must start to reflect in your various electioneering campaigns which I urge should be issues-based.”

Oba Balogun noted that Nigeria was blessed with formidable personalities across the various political party lines that possess the wherewithal to navigate the country out of the present quagmire.

Olubadan also charged the presidential candidates to avoid “personality attacks during their electioneering as well as other utterances that could further put a wedge between them and their supporters.”