Former Publicity Secretary of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Timi Frank, has advised President Muhammadu
Buhari to be careful in dealing with all those urging him to seek re-election
in 2019.
He gave the advice during a phone
interview on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’ which was hosted by Seun
Okinbaloye.
When asked of his views on the
call for Buhari to re-contest Presidency in 2019, Frank said: “If I am the
President, I should be careful of people like Mallam (Nasir) El-Rufai that are
saying that the President must run or that the President should run,” he said.
“This is because the President
had every right to run for presidency in 2019 if he so wishes, so there was no
need to urge him to do so except there is a sinister motive behind it.
“The President is not one person
people can force to do what he is not ready to do. But if the President chooses
to run today, of course, as a President of Nigeria and as the President of our
party, he has what they call ‘first refusal’.
“But again, has he told anybody
he wants to run? The answer is ‘no’. Until the President says he wants to run,
nobody can force him to do the job he is not ready to do.”
It could be recalled that
governor El-Rufai’s had told journalists after his visit to the President on
Friday that he and other “Buharists” were keen on ensuring
that the President runs for a second term in 2019.
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