Femi Adesina, spokesman of
President Muhammadu Buhari, says his principal’s 2011 statement that he will
only be president for one term is not applicable anymore.
Speaking on Sunrise Daily, a
Channels Television programme on Tuesday, Adesina said Buhari entertained pleas
for him to be president for the past one year before declaring his intentions.
“The other one of running one
term was in 2011. When he was running in 2011 he said yes he will be a
president for only one term but did he win in that year? No. The victory came
in 2015. So that being quoted from 2011 is not applicable again,” Adesina said.
“There were a lot of convincing
and appeals. I have sat in different meetings with different groups and the
president and all of them the reason they came was that they run for a second
term in office.
“And do you know that whenever
the president reacted to this groups, he will pick every other thing he raised
and he said the issue of a second term he will not say a word and that has been
the past one year, these calls have started coming and he didn’t say a word.
That reinforced my opinion that for him that it is not a do or die affair it is
just a matter of serving the country.
The president’s spokesman said
the declaration would not affect governance saying:”I think the president had
just picked the right time to make his intentions known, whether it will affect
governance or not depends on the personality of who is the president.
“Don’t forget that under Obasanjo
when the process was affecting governance, he read a riot act and said let’s
concentrate on governance, President Buhari is just somebody like that, he will
never allow politicking to affect governance.”
He said the president may be
re-elected on his achievements in security, reviving the economy and fighting
corruption.
“There certain things that he set
out to do. Normally it comes up under three broad umbrellas. One is secure the
country, two is fight corruption, three is revive the economy and I have said
it in all three areas,” Adesina said.
“There are successes in all three
of these areas. Except anybody is willfully blind. The willfully blind will
never see, even if you put the thing right in front of his eyes. We are not
talking to the willfully blind or deaf.”
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