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2019: Buhari supporters willing to sell their possessions to fund his reelection— Keyamo

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2019: Buhari supporters willing to sell their possessions to fund his reelection— Keyamo

Festus Keyamo (SAN), spokesman of the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari, has disclosed that Buhari supporters are willing to making great financial sacrifices to back the president’s reelection.

The Buhari re-election campaign spokesman said unlike the PDP “whose oxygen is money”, Buhari did not need federal funds to win re-election, saying his supporters would be happy to sell their possessions to fund the endeavour.

Keyamo said this in a chat with The Interview.

Asked why he thought Buhari deserved re-election in light of reports on growing poverty and the weak economy, Keyamo said, “Where does the National Bureau of Statistics get its figures from? I don’t believe those statistics!”

Speaking further, Keyamo expressed optimism that Buhari would be re-elected in 2019, adding that the president will instill a different political culture in the country before he retires.

“He (Buhari) needs time to instill that culture different from what we have learnt government is all about,” he said.

“Let’s be honest, most young people of our generation grew up to know only the PDP system, which is – and was – only about money.”

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He said Buhari also needed to consolidate his anti-corruption war and deal a final blow on insecurity, describing insinuations that the president was sponsoring herdsmen as “satanic and idiotic.”

He also spoke on the president’s reference to Nigerian youths as “lazy”; allegations that he abandoned the defendant in the Ozubulu church killings to join Buhari; and what he thought his former mentor and leading human rights lawyer, Gani Fawehimi (SAN), would have done with Buhari’s government.

When asked if he would support full disclosure of the health status of all the candidates in the 2019 campaign, Keyamo said, “I agree that candidates should declare their health status. But if somebody is sick and is well and now discloses that he is well now, fine. He (Buhari) is ready to go; he is fit to go. Abacha was not sick at all, no history; yet he slumped and died.”

He also expressed support for presidential debates.

 

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