Unic Press UK: Again, the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has been cautioned to drop his plans to contest the 2019 Presidential Election.
In a recent interview with Sunday Punch, Nigeria, a former state governor, Chukwuemeka Ezeife, said that Buhari, aged 75, should stay away from the contest due to the enormous work and stress associated with the office of the president. Ezeife, who claimed that Buhari administration had already failed the Nigerian people, reiterated his opposition to the president’s reelection bid, and hoped that the retired army general would listen to the voices of reason asking him to stay away.
In his remarks the Chairman of the Northern Elders’ Council, Alhaji Tanko Yakasai, said: “Buhari and his party (All Progressives Congress) were not prepared to rule Nigeria in the first instance. Therefore, in my opinion, he should not have contested at all,” the Sunday Punch reported.
Much earlier, Nigeria’s retired army general, Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ), who was a military ruler [from 13 February 1976 to 1 October 1979] and a democratically elected president who served from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007, warned president Muhammadu Buhari not to contest the 2019 presidential election, claiming that the APC-led government under Buhari has failed in governance.
In a press statement ‘The Way Out: A Clarion Call for Coalition for Nigeria Movement‘ in January, Obasanjo said:
“Let the administration and its political party platform agree with the rest of us that what they have done and what they are capable of doing is not good enough for us. They have given as best as they have and as best as they can give. Nigeria deserves and urgently needs better than what they have given or what we know they are capable of giving. To ask them to give more will be unrealistic and will only sentence Nigeria to a prison term of four years if not destroy it beyond the possibility of an early recovery and substantial growth. Einstein made it clear to us that doing the same thing and expecting a different result is the height of folly. Already, Nigerians are committing suicide for the unbearable socio-economic situation they find themselves in. And yet Nigerians love life. We must not continue to reinforce failure and hope that all will be well. It is self-deceit and self-defeat and another aspect of folly.”
