Report on Buhari’s one-term Presidency a misquote - Adesina
- Presidential spokesperson, Femi Adesina, has said that President Buhari did not promise to run for one term in office in 2015
- Buhari had on Monday, April 9, declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019
- Adesina, however, said that although the president said it in 2011, his statement is not applicable anymore
Femi Adesina, the spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, has said that his principal’s 2011 statement that he would only be president for one term is not applicable anymore.
The Cable reports that while speaking on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television programme on Tuesday, April 10, Adesina said Buhari entertained pleas for him to be president for the past one year before declaring his intention.
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“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.
“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 these 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.”
Legit.ng gathered that he said the president may be re-elected on his achievements in security, reviving the economy and fighting corruption.
“There are 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.
“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", Adesina said.
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, April 9, in Abuja declared his intention to seek re-election in 2019. Malam Garba Shehu, the president’s senior special assistant on media and Publicity confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Monday.
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Source: Legit.ng
