President Muhammadu Buhari has told UK Prime Minister Boris
Johnson that there is no possibility of him seeking a third term in office.
The president spoke on Thursday during a bilateral meeting
with Johnson on the sideline of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government
Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali, Rwanda.
According to Femi Adesina, presidential spokesperson, the
British prime minister had asked if Buhari would run for office again, and he
responded by saying: “Another term for me? No! The first person who tried it
didn’t end very well.”
The president also denied that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the
proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), was not being allowed to see
his lawyers.
He said the separatist activist is provided with every
opportunity under the law “to justify all the uncomplimentary things he had
been saying against Nigeria in Britain”.
“He felt very safe in Britain and said awful things against
Nigeria. We eventually got him when he stepped out of the United Kingdom, and
we sent him to court,” Buhari said.
“Let him defend all that he has said there. His lawyers have
access to him. Remember he jumped bail before, how are we sure he won’t do it
again if he’s admitted to bail?”
Speaking on the Boko Haram insurgency, Buhari said serious
efforts are underway to educate the people on the fact that only an “unserious
person” could kill innocent people and ascribe it to God.
“And the education process is working, the people now
understand Boko Haram as anti-God, and not about religion,” he said.
In his remarks, Johnson expressed delight in the trade
relations between both countries, adding that the UK was further reducing
tariffs on some goods going to Nigeria.
“I just want to be sure that we are doing enough. It’s a
massive partnership for us, and we need to capitalise on it,” he said.
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