Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30172350-20170617091148/@comment-1746153-20170617110750

Ririblob wrote: he killed himself to save sishui eye and tried to kill obito and sasuke in the progress even though he could have saved himself and you might think trying to be hokage was selfish but he wanted it not to help himself rather to save konoha from getting destroyed in the chaos

Hm, wasn't he dying? I don't think he could save himself anymore, because if he could have, he'd just do that.

And he wanted to rule Konoha his own way, so yeah, selfish. With his lack of faith in people and his tendency to not value lives he could have only been a pretty terrible ruler.