Buhari’s second term is to avoid frittering away of gains made since 2015—Shehu
The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, has technically flagged off his own side of the presidential campaign ahead of 2019, saying President Buhari was not desperate for the office he currently occupies comes next year.
Rather, “Buhari was interested in second term because he did not want the gains made by his administration from 2015 to be frittered away”.
Explaining more in an article titled, ‘Buhari’s 2019 bid and matters arising,’ he argued that if a corrupt politician won the next election, the country would return to the pre-2015 era.
According to him, “An important motivation for President Buhari’s bid for second term is that the gains made from 2015 should not be frittered away.
“Buhari is not involved in corruption and is not desperate for the office. He is among the few leaders we have who are not obsessed with money, cars and homes, but working passionately for the country’s economy, peace and safety.
“If a corrupt politician wins, we will go back to where we were in 2015.
‘‘Many by now have forgotten where we are coming from. The daily bomb blasts in our cities between 2012 and 2015, including the deadly attack on the United Nations office in Abuja, have been forgotten by many.
“The Juma’at Mosque bomb attack on Kano that left 300 dead and the theft of 270 girls in Chibok as they assembled to sit for their final exams, with 113 yet to return, have for many, faded into history.”
Continuing, the presidential aide averred that cabinet meetings were now about how trillions of naira was to be used to provide long delayed infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railway, power, drugs and equipment for hospitals, while grand corruption, by which ministers sat around the table to share money drawn from the treasury, had been ended.
While agreeing that since Buhari declared his intention to seek second term, all hell had been let loose by “the chaotic, ill-prepared opposition camp,” he claimed that while the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) did extremely well in the North during the last general elections to come to power, there are indications that in 2019, it will do in the South, what it did in the North in 2015.
