Former Ambassador of Nigeria to the Republic of Germany and chieftain of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Professor Tunde Adeniran has reacted to the intention of President Muhammadu Buhari to run for second term in 2019.
President Buhari had made known his quest for a second term in office at the National Executive Committee, NEC of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja on Monday, saying he had decided to heed the call to seek a fresh mandate.
“People have been asking me to declare for re-election and some have been asking me when I am going to declare. I want to give the NEC the honour to be the first to hear it. I have decided to contest the 2019 elections,” Buhari had declared on Monday.
But reacting to the development, Adeniran tasked Buhari to first of all convince Nigerians on why they should give him another mandate.
He said: “We are happy that he has come out to confirm what we have always suspected. He will meet us in the field. He has to convince Nigerians why they should support him for another four more years of nepotism, insensitivity, insecurity, subjugation and uncertainty.”
On his part, a former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife said if it was the will of God that the President wins a second term in office, there was nothing any mortal being can do about it.
Ezeife, however, said Buhari’s friends did not do well by failing to advise him to perish the thought of continuing in office beyond 2019.
“Good luck to him if he has chosen to run again. If it is the will of God that he returns, there is nothing anybody can do about it. But if you ask me, I think his close friends should have advised him differently. That is my honest opinion,” Ezeife told Vanguard.
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