It is not fit for an elder statesman or president for that matter to engage in flip-flopping. Former presidential candidate John Kerry of the Democratic party in the US learned a bitter lesson from this - it cost him the presidency. For the uninitiated, a flip flop is a a type of circuit that is interconnected with like circuits to form logic gates in digital integrated circuits, such as memory chips and microprocessors. The name “flip-flop” comes from the circuit’s nature of alternating between two states when a current is applied to the circuit (for example, 1 to 0 or 0 to 1).

The Republicans nicknamed John Kerry as a flip-flopper because of his penchant for changing his opinions . They put that label on him and used it to advantage in the elections. They see him as a candidate that does not trust to his convictions and one that would remain unfirm in matters that requires leadership and the dispaly of courage.

Nigeria is not America and no matter what an aspirant to office says, it would not come back to hunt him, at least in the current democratc dispensation when elections are rigged and ballot boxes stuffed at the domicile of godfathers.
Back to the topic of discussion, can you recall any act of flip-flopping committed by our elected officials? I have one credited to the president pertaining to the reference to God in politics. It goes like this:

Last week speaking to Washington Post in New York:
I believe that God is not a God of abandoned projects. If God has a project, He will not abandon it. The reforms that we are putting in place have to be anchored, anchored in legislation, anchored in institutions.”

Twelve years ago speaking at Arewa Forum in Nigeria:
“How do we provide a stake in Nigeria for every Nigerian if Nigerians from one part of the country can be told that God has ordained people from another part of Nigeria for permanent political leadership?,”

I don't see how two typically meaningless political statements can be considered contradictory!

This does not make sense.