BUHARI DECLARES INTENTION TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
BUHARI
DECLARES INTENTION TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
President
Muhammadu Buhari talking
President Muhammadu Buhari has formally announced he
will seek re-election in 2019.
Mr. Buhari
made the announcement on Monday at a meeting of the ruling All Progressives
Congress leadership.
The
National Executive Committee(NEC) meeting of the party is holding in Abuja.
Mr. Buhari
made the declaration after the media had left the NEC hall of APC secretariat
in Abuja.
The Chief
Whip of the House of Representatives, Alhassan Doguwa, confirmed that “It is true that the president has announced his commitment to seek
re election in 2019”.
While the
president has long indicated he will seek a second term of four years, this is
his first public announcement.
Mr. Buhari
took office on May 29, 2015 after defeating then incumbent President Goodluck
Jonathan in the presidential election of that year.
One of his
major backers in that election, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in January
advised him to drop his reelection bid, saying his administration had been a
monumental failure.
The
Northern Elders Forum also expressed its reluctance to back Mr. Buhari in the
coming election, saying he had so far failed to impress.
But the
governors elected on the platform of the APC have repeatedly called on the
President to run, with one of them, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, saying
his state would sue should the president decline to seek reelection.