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| President Muhammadu Buhari, Federal Republic of Nigeria |
Toye Faleye
Following hints from the Secretary to the Government
of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal, that indicates President
Mohammadu Buhari may seek second term in office, a human rights activist and
President of Voters Awareness Initiatives, Barrister Wale Ogunade, has said
that it is performance that will win election rather than mere expression of
aspiration and political gimmicks.
Ogunade in reacting to Babachir’s statement says, “He
(Babachir) is a politician. He thinks that Nigerians are as naïve as in 2007,
when voters were non-chalant and politicians sold anything to them in the name
of electoral promises. That era is gone and gone forever in Nigeria. The last
general election has proved that what wins election now is performance.”
But in a twist, a former local government chairman and
frontline politician, Honourable Olasupo Olayode says, “Babachir spoke out of
the conscience of a nation on its knees. He has spoken right. We are no looking
for a president in the years ahead but an act of eloquent proof of aversion to
corruption as… appropriated and of course personified by President Mohammadu
Buhari. We need not a president but a Buhari till the country comes alive.
Babachir gave a hint of the possibility of President
Muhammadu Buhari seeking a second term in 2019 while addressing a pro-Buhari
crowd gathered at the Unity Fountain, Abuja, on Tuesday, at the beginning of a
series of protests in support of the President. He told the crowd that
President Buhari feels the pains of Nigerians and was encouraged by the show of
support to work to improve their lot.
According to him, the President did not envisage the
enormity of the challenges he met on the ground but was doing all within his
power to set Nigeria on the path of sustainable growth.
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