The Allied Peoples Movement, APM, presidential running mate, Lawal Daura, on Wednesday declared that he’s not a politician however performs politics.
Daura disclosed that he’ll turn out to be a politician when the definition of politics adjustments in Nigeria.
Speaking in the course of the unveiling of the APM’s reset manifesto in Abuja, the previous Director General of the Department of State Services, DSS, stated younger Nigerians now lie and deceive folks underneath the guise of being a politician.
According to Daura: “I’m playing politics but I’m not a politician, I will accept to be a politician the day when the definition of a politician in Nigeria changes, this is because I have seen even younger people, when they lie, it’s politics; when they deceive they say it’s politics, when they commit crime they claim it’s politics; and if that is what they define as politics, definitely I’m not a politician but I play politics.”
Daura added: “I would like to say that whenever people are trying to use their privileged position to muscle the opposition, I think that they are enjoying themselves because quality opposition is what determines the attempt to bring down the political temperature when it’s high.
“And the place there isn’t any opposition, no qualitative opposition there may be a downside as a result of at any time when the political temperature is excessive, there may be nothing that may convey it down.”
