Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan, representing Yobe North, under the All Progressives Congress, APC, has described the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari, to run in the 2019 presidential election as a welcome development.
Lawan said the President’s declaration was in line with the aspiration of the people.
DAILY POST reported that President Buhari on Monday officially announced his intension to run in the 2019 presidential election
Hide quoted text Lawan spoke with Vanguard on Monday immediately after President Buhari made the declaration at a closed-door meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC of the APC.
The lawmaker said that it would enable Buhari in all its ramifications, consolidate on his achievements and that of the government of APC.
He said, “Last year, I said it that the President has no option than to run for the second term.
“He has been working very hard to set infrastructure foundation for Nigeria and he needs to consolidate on that.
“With very scarce and limited resources due to the declining price of crude oil in the world market, this administration has been able to do a lot with the little it has got.
“So we have the responsibility, those of us who have been agitating and clamouring for the President to declare his intention to run for the second term, to educate the Nigerian public who may not know the developments and also continue to watch out for those mysterious elements who will always like to misguide Nigerians about the performance of this administration and divert all attention from us to issues that are very mundane.”
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