The presidency has confirmed that President Mohammadu Buhari would be seeking a second term in office in 2019.<\/p>\n
The Presidency also vehemently dismissed comments that it would be a lonely walk for\u00a0 president Buhari, a development expected to serve as a punishment for perceived bad governance.
\nThe refutation was a sharp reply to a statement credited a former member of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Alhaji Buba Galadima that the people of Nigeria would abandon Buhari should he choose to seek re-election.<\/p>\n
In a strong worded statement last night, the presidency through the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu stated that the \u201csuggestions that the masses will desert President Buhari in 2019 as unfounded and utterly ridiculous\u201d.<\/p>\n
Shehu asserted that \u201cordinary Nigerians are the backbone of his mandate and the only reason he ran for the office is to protect them against the rapacious merchants of corruption, who have held Nigeria back for decades\u201d, saying that \u201d Galadima\u2019s calculation and prediction is utterly confused and misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the presidential spokesman \u201cthe masses are solidly behind Buhari because he is not stealing their money and their future. President\u2019s enormous goodwill remains ever strong because the people are convinced the President is acting in their best interest, despite the temporary unintended consequences of reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Suggesting vendetta and strong animosity agent the person and the government of Buhari, Shehu who carpeted Galadinma recalled that an age-long face-off between both Arewa leaders in their CPC days.<\/p>\n
He revealed that it was the reason why Buhari discarded the likes of Galadinma in the 2015 elections he ran and won, urging Galadinma to retire to his constituency and stand an election if he still enjoyed the goodwill of his people.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari is far from isolation. He enjoys a very strategic relationship with ordinary Nigerians. This relationship is as solid as the proverbial rock. If Buba Galadima thinks that because he has no role and no job in this government that means president is isolated, he is putting himself up to ridicule.<\/p>\n
\u201cGaladima cannot speak for the masses as far as their steadfast loyalty to Buhari is concerned. While acknowledging that Galadima was entitled to advance his own political agenda, Malam Garba said Galadima didn\u2019t have the right to decide for ordinary voters.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuba Galadima\u2019s disagreement with President Buhari was based on principle. He explained that President Buhari is committed to level playing field and would not want anyone to link his name to injustice.<\/p>\n
\u201cGaladima\u2019s disagreement with Buhari started in 2011 when a group within the party, orchestrated an organizational mess by which the CPC embarked on the imposition and substitution of candidates for cash payments at the expense of those duly and democratically elected.<\/p>\n
\u201cMuhammadu Buhari was embarrassed by the incidents and complaints about the imposition and substitution of candidates, adding that he, as a democrat, would not suppress the will of the people to please selfish interests.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsequently he dispensed with the service, such as they are, of Buba Galadima; ran and won the 2015 Elections without them. Let Buba Galadima go to his constituency, stand for election and see what will happen to him\u201d, Shehu stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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