Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, on Monday, said President Muhammadu Buhari recently came under pressure from some Nigerians to buck constitutional impediments and seek power for a third term.
Malam Shehu claimed, however, that President Buhari spurned the devious idea in favour of existing constitutional stipulations on term limits.
The presidential spokesman made this revelation, on Monday, while appearing on Channels Television political magazine programme.
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According to Malam Shehu, “In fact, from 2019, we have seen persuaders come before our very eyes and tell us that leaders should not go; that term limits are a nuisance and should be eliminated.”
Malam Shehu, however, refused to name those behind the evil plot.
Malam Shehu, who insinuated that his principal was more democratic than past leaders before him, such as presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and the late Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, said that President Buhari was eager to leave office in 2023.
“But Buhari wants to make the point that ‘I am not here to stay a day beyond my term of office and be sure there’ll be an election.
“We have seen people on death beds unwilling to go, and persuaders are saying ‘no, they will keep power until they go to the grave’,” the presidential spokesman said.
Recall that not long ago, President Buhari had told embattled a former British Prime Minister, Mr. Boris Johnson, at a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), in Kigali, Rwanda, that he would not be seeking a third term.
President Buhari had been quoted to have said, “Another term for me? No! The first person who tried it didn’t end very well.”
