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Buhari may disappoint second term campaigners

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There are indications that President Muhammadu Buhari may disappoint his acolytes who are daily putting pressure on him to contest for another term of office.

A source very close to the Presidential Villa informed Ripples Nigeria that the President is not keen to re-contest for the office.

According to the source, the president may have become hostage to the feelings of some of his very close aides and associates who, it was learnt, want to ride on the back of the president to extend their hold on government.

The source indicates that the president is not likely to succumb to the pressure on him to contest in 2019 due to his health.

President Buhari’s senior media aide, Femi Adesina, had said in a media interview recently that the decision to contest again in 2019 would depend on the president’s state of health.

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But our source hinted that a very close ally of the president, who is said to lead insider forces urging the president to re-contest, had argued within the Villa circles that Buhari’s decision to contest again will help unify the ruling party, All Progressives Congress (APC).

Our source quotes the top lobbyist as saying that APC may disintegrate if Buhari declines to contest in 2019 adding that there may be no credible alternative to Buhari within APC.

This is coming on the backdrop of public statements by two former Nigerian rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, wherein they reminded the president that he had failed the expectation of the people and needed to take a bow in 2019.

The two former leaders also told Buhari in their separate statements that he has shown absolute lack of capacity to lead a multi-ethnic country like Nigeria.

However, controversy still surrounds the purported letter by Babangida, as there have been reports of denials from his camp, that he authorized the letter urging Buhari to step down.

Before the two, several other prominent Nigerians, including Bishop emeritus of the Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okojie, chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) Ibrahim Coomasie, had warned of the country’s gradual drift into anarchy on account of the President’s failure to manage issues of Fulani Herdsmen who had been on a killing spree across the country.

 

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