President Muhammadu Buhari has
said that pregnant women and ordinary Nigerians will vote him back to power in
2019 election.
Buhari said he was not hoping to
get any vote from the “big men” because they don’t come out to vote during
elections.
The President also said that he
would perform better if given another opportunity.
Buhari further stated that he had
warned the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and the security
agencies to ensure that every vote counts in 2019.
He said he instructed them that
all Nigerians must be allowed to vote whoever they want without harassment.
NAN reports that Buhari spoke on
Thursday during an interactive session with a select group of Nigerian
professionals based in the United States and Canada.
Buhari said he recognised that
Nigerians in the diaspora were talented people and called on them to come to
the support of the country, particularly, in education.
The president also said that he
was not slow as some people had assumed, saying he was trying to follow the
law, especially as democracy is different from military rule.
He recalled that he put people in
Kirikiri Maximum Prison in Lagos when he was a military head of state and then
ensured they remained in custody until they were able to prove themselves
innocent.
Buhari, however, said his
administration was making progress but had to go by the law assuring that “if I
win the next election and I survive the next four years, I will do better”.
He also recounted his experience
in politics saying that he suffered electoral corruption from 2013 when he
started contesting for the presidency and had at each point, pursued the case
up to the Supreme Court but lost.
“I’m always conscious of the
ordinary people because they are the ones that always vote for me. A lot of big
men have no time to go and queue on the line for hours.
“There were even pregnant women
who were on the line for hours and they delivered. They are my constituencies;
they always vote for me,” Buhari said.
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