Femi Adesina, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari, says his principal is yet to declare his intention
for the 2019 election because he wants to prevent opponents from sabotaging the
country.
In an interview with reporters
during the weekend, Adesina said it will be a problem if Buhari “speaks too
early”.
He said the president would keep
his intentions to his “chest” until the “time they can do less damage”.
Adesina claimed that many of
those who asked Buhari not to run are doing so because they do not have the
“foggiest chance in hell to beat him”.
“You know the peculiarity of
Nigeria particularly now. If the president speaks too early, it’s a problem.
There is a lot of sabotage in the country,” Adesina said.
“You have also heard so many have
said ‘don’t run.’ Because they know that if the president runs, other people
should just run away because they don’t have the foggiest chance in hell to
beat him.
“So, they want to discourage him
from running. Now, if he tells you ‘I’m going to run,’ and elections are still
one year away, it gives them one year to sabotage the entire country from all
fronts – politically, socially, economically – they would throw everything at
him just to dissuade him from running.
“So, when you know that, why then
do you speak early? I think it makes a lot of sense for you then to keep things
close to your chest till it is time for you to then say, ‘ok, I’m running’ by
which time they can do less damage.”
Though Buhari has not officially
indicated his interest to seek a second term in office, his body language
suggests so.
In November 2017, during his
visit to Abidjan, capital of Cote d’Ivod’Ivoire, for the 5th European
Union-African Union (EU-AU) summit, Buhari gave a hint, when he told the
Nigerian community that he came to their meeting with their governors as “it
may earn another vote for me in the future”.
When he visited Benue last week,
he told stakeholders that he might return to the state for campaign.
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