The Nigeria Political Science Association (NPSA) has stressed the need for the political class to imbibe the culture of political inclusiveness to enable the country overcome its security challenges.
Addressing journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, on Thursday on the state of the nation, the National President of NPSA, Professor Hassan Saliu, noted that all forms of security challenges across the nation’s geopolitical zones were as a result of political exclusiveness.
Saliu equally attributed the menace of money politics as witnessed in the recent presidential primaries of leading political parties in the country to the problem of exclusiveness.
The NPSA President said that Nigerians should preoccupy themselves with how to elect a credible person that knows how to fix the country as president in 2023 instead of dissipating energy on Muslim/Muslim ticket.
While commending President Muhammadu Buhari for not influencing the outcome of the APC presidential primary, Saliu said that Nigerians need a president whose body language would not influence government decisions on national issues.
He added that Nigeria needs a president that would restore dignity of Nigerians, uphold the rules of law, constitution and fundamental human rights.
“What the NPSA is after is the election of a president that knows how to fix Nigeria”, he said.
Saliu said that the NPSA had organised five different political platforms in the country in its efforts to promote good governance in the country, adding that the association would soon publish a book on governance in contemporary Nigeria.