A former Deputy National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, says it is his constitutional right to live anywhere he choose to reside in the world.
George, made this assertion on Monday night while featuring on Channels Television’s Politics Today saying that he can relocate to Nigeria’s West African neighbours like Ghana, Cotonou in Benin Republic and Lome in Togo if he isn’t satisfied with the incoming administration of the President-Elect, Bola Tinubu.
The PDP Chieftain had during the electioneering campaign said he would go on exile if the then flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC) now president-elect, Bola Tinubu won the February 25 presidential poll.
When asked if he’s still standing by his word, Chief Bode said he is ready to go on political retirement following Bola Tinubu’s emergence as president.
According to him, he has a right to live anywhere he wants
“I didn’t hide my feelings. I said if this fellow (Tinubu) becomes the President, I will lose my interest politically.
“I have the right as a Nigerian to live anywhere I want. And I am saying it publicly that I am ready to retire from partisan politics. This is my own personally conviction that they don’t have the capacity, the ability to run this nation.
“I am not a young man anymore. If I am not satisfied with the way things are going, I have a right to go and stay anywhere I want to live for the rest of my life and play with my children and grandchildren.
“I haven’t committed any offence that can debar me. I can go to Lome to live. I can go to go Cotonou. I can go to Ghana. I can even go to Iceland. I can go to anywhere I want. With my green passport and my credibility and worthiness, I can live anywhere. I am just bothered about the younger generation,” he said.
He accused President Muhammadu Buhari for not fulfilling his promise to leave a legacy of free and fair elections, saying that the electoral umpire, INEC did not transmit the results of the February 25 poll electronically as promised.
“For the past 25 years we’ve been talking. Let us do the right. They told us the results will be electronically transmitted and I remember Oga patapata ( referring to President Buhari) saying that there will be change in the electoral process. Was there a change as promised? Chief Bode asked