The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and
Publicity, Garba Shehu, has said the President, Muhammadu Buhari, was persuaded
and pressured by Nigerians to run for president.
He was reacting to some comments delivered by the President
on his plans for the 2023 presidential election.
Buhari had, in an interview aired on NTA, on Thursday, said
he had given his best to Nigeria, just as he said he was looking forward to
when he would be less busy after leaving office in 2023.
The President said, “About my age, I see my colleagues, they
are now resting, and I assure you that I look forward to the next 17 months
when I too will be less busy.
“The age is telling on me, working now for six, seven to
eight hours per day in the office is no joke — there are questions of executive
council, memos from as many states as possible to be considered virtually every
week. Really, it’s a lot of hard work, but as I’ve said, I asked for it and I
cannot complain.
“I have been a governor, I have been a minister, and I’m in
my second term as president. So, I’ve gone through all the systems and really,
what else can I do for this country? I have given my best.”
Reacting, Shehu, who appeared on Channels Television’s
Sunrise Daily programme on Friday, said the President was right to have said he
had given his best to the country.
He said, “The president can be very casual sometimes in
speaking and jovial and jocularly; I think this is what people fail to
understand of him. They need to understand how he was persuaded and pressured
to even run in the first instance.
“He had served as governor, minister and military Head of
State and that’s the highest it could get. He had retired home and Nigerians
came and said you are the right person for this moment, we need you. It took
some persuasion.
“So, yes, it is right for the person to say he has given his
best and when the time is up, some other person will take over”.
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