Buhari will win again! if he contests to be president – Presidency.
Buhari will
win again! if he contests to be president – Presidency.
The presidency has said President Muhammadu
Buhari will win again if he ever contests for the presidential election.
According to Garba Shehu, senior special assistant on media and
publicity to the president, this is because Nigerians were happy with Mr.
Buhari and would still vote for him.
Mr. Shehu said this on Tuesday while addressing journalists at
the presidential villa. He was joined by Femi Adesina, special adviser on
media and publicity to the president, and Laolu Akande, spokesperson to acting
President Yemi Osinbajo during the press briefing in Abuja to mark the 2nd
year anniversary of this government.
“The
confidence reposed in Buhari by ordinary Nigerians had remained unshaken
because the president, according to him, is doing what they want.
“You cannot write the report card of this administration in two years. The mandate is four years and it is too early in the day. You don’t reach definite term in the mid-term. We will have a lot more to fulfill. If anybody tells you APC has failed, tell them it’s too early in the day, we still have two years, it’s a four year term”.
“You cannot write the report card of this administration in two years. The mandate is four years and it is too early in the day. You don’t reach definite term in the mid-term. We will have a lot more to fulfill. If anybody tells you APC has failed, tell them it’s too early in the day, we still have two years, it’s a four year term”.
Also lending his voice, Special Adviser to President Buhari on
media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said:
“People can always express their opinions, there is liberty on
that but you don’t have a scientific survey that has given you the percentage
of people that believed that the APC has failed.
The second point is that, when a government via a party is voted
into office, it is voted for a four year term under our own democratic
arrangement. When you have spent two years which is like a midterm, the first
half of a game, you don’t then determine that it has succeeded or it has
failed. No.
You can be accused of being atomistic using a small part to
determine the whole. You can’t write the report card of this administration
when it is just hitting the half way mark, that will not be fair. This administration
will take Nigeria far beyond how it met it.
So
if anybody says APC has failed just tell them is too early in the day because
is a four year-term and this is just two years. You don’t reach definitive
conclusions in two years.’’
Reacting to rumors of a coup attempt and the statement released
by the Chief of Army Staff warning soldiers to steer clear from politics,
Adesina said:
“What
the Chief of Army Staff said was a routine warning that goes to military
officers, don’t hobnob with politicians and the army has explained the
position. Let’s take that position and not stretch it beyond what the military
has said because they are the ones that can give us the definitive position and
they have spoken on it.’’
