FLASH: Afe Babalola Predicts Winner Of 2023 Presidency

Afe Babalola, a legal luminary, has expressed concern that the upcoming presidential election will be won by the highest spender rather than the best candidate.

At a press conference in Ado Ekiti, Babalola expressed concern that the 2023 general elections will be held under the 1999 constitution, against his advice, and that the poll will only reproduce those who have brought Nigeria to a shambles.

“It is not who can make a difference that will win this election, I repeat, it is not the person who has all it takes – age, health, education, and patriotism, that will win the election; the winner of this election I can bet it, is going to be the person who has made money in this country.

“It is the person who has the money that will win,” the legal icon buttressed.

According to him, former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent endorsement of Peter Obi of the Labour Party ignores the role money bags will play in the election.

He bemoaned Nigeria’s massive and crippling debt, as well as the country’s worsening security and economic challenges, insisting that only a new constitution with stringent requirements for political candidates could save the country from total collapse.