Senior Special Assistant to
President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said that
his principal will defeat any of the former presidents who recently asked him
(Buhari) not to re-contest.
Former president Olusegun
Obasanjo and General Ibrahim Babangida, are among Nigerians who have told
Buhari not to stand for re-election in 2019.
Shehu has said that rather than
asking Buhari not to contest in 2019, the former leaders should come out and
contest against Buhari next year.
“My response to them is that if
they like they can come and contest against President Buhari. He will defeat
them, all of them,” he told Ben TV in an interview.
On the belief by some Nigerians
that President Buhari should not be talking of recontesting when there is
hunger in the land, he said “With all the noise the PDP is making, even during
their tenure as President, did they give breakfast, lunch and dinner to every
citizen? Is there any country in which someone does not go hungry?
“I am not saying it is perfectly
in order but they are just politicizing these issues. This is a government that
has removed this country from the shame of food importation, every state of the
country now is into rice production, and we are feeding not only Nigeria but
West Africa.
“And the government is working on
having respectable prices for food items, food inflation is coming down
grossly. Everyone complaining of hunger should go and work. And you know that
this is the only government that has introduced social investment schemes, we
pay out now for the poorest of the poor, the least they will get is N5,000.and
a lot of these job that are being created are from loans with little or no
interest from the central bank, Bank of industry, Banks of Agriculture,
Development Bank and the rest.
“So, there is a lot going for
people who really want to go out there to work especially in Agriculture.”
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