Buhari already making plans for 2019?

It seems president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, while yet to be inaugurated for a first term in office, is already laying the ground works for another shot at the presidency in 2019.

He gave indications to that effect on Wednesday when he played host to people from Benue State who paid him a congratulatory visit in Abuja.

The team, which was led by the governor-elect of the state, Mr. Samuel Ortom, included Chief Audu Ogbe and Senator George Akume, among others.

While thanking Benue State for voting APC, Buhari also begged them, especially Akume not to make things difficult for him in 2019.

He said, “I beg Senator Akume and the governor-elect not to make my 2019 attempt too difficult”.

He also said, “I think Nigerians have decided. It has been a rough journey. They have realised it. We thank God and we thank the technology which made it possible because if not for PVC and card readers, the normal thing would have happened; the normal thing which sent me to the Supreme Court three times.

“I beg Senator Akume and the governor-elect not to make my 2019 attempt too difficult.

Buhari also stated that hard times await perpetrators of violence before, during and after the recent governorship elections in Rivers State as he will not “forgive or forget” their evil acts.

Buhari spoke when the state chapter of APC, also paid him a congratulatory visit in Abuja.

Buhari, who said he owed the people a duty to ensure justice in the land, also assured that every Nigerian deserved respect and dignity.

He said: “We will confront them with facts and figures. We will not forgive and we will not forget those who perpetrated killings and arson in Rivers State during the elections. At least this is the much we owe Nigerians.”

He added that his government will not tolerate “an army within the army or a police within the police.”

Also speaking to journalists, the former deputy governor of the state, Sir Gabriel Toby, who led the Rivers delegation pledged the support of the people to the incoming administration, adding, that they were also in Abuja to plead with the President-elect not to forget the persecution and many sacrifices made by their son, Governor Rotimi Amaechi, that culminated into APC’s success, urging Buhari to duly compensate Amaechi.

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