Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Nigeria: Whispers on Third Term
OLAYINKA AGBETUYI
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Gloria Emeagwali
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dear All,
All these rumours! Why is there such hysteria, such a hue and cry and hullabaloo about President Buhari going for a third term and such dubious reasons being given for the hysteria when the dust of battle from the last election has not even settled yet? Because, all said and done, President Buhari has been at least a moderately successful two-term president, given the circumstances and all the challenges that he has faced since he took office, starting with the sharp drop in oil prices, since the early days of his first term.
“His health!” “His age!” As if he is Methuselah!
The loser of the last election Abubakar Atiku whose 73rd birthday it is today (Mighty Congratulations!) is not getting any younger either and at 76, like Johnny Walker, as everyone can see, Brother Buhari is still going strong. No doubt, in no small measure due to his spartan lifestyle and the disciplined life expected of the Ex-General.
We (moi-même and great many of us the well-wishers) pray to the Almighty for his good health and long life and success in steering the ship of state in all circumstances.
Have no fear: President Muhammadu Buhari having given his word that he is not interested in a third term, why should you or anybody else be worried, or more worried about his health, than he himself, his family, his doctor, his best friends, his patrons, the members of the APC party that he leads?
The fear – the opposition’s fear of Brother Buhari going for a third term must be their fear that he stands a very good chance of winning the next Nigerian Presidential elections for the third consecutive time. If the Nigerian constitution were to be suitably amended to enable him to legally pursue a third term in office, shouldn’t the disgruntled opposition be extra-happy that in campaigning against him they would be highlighting his age and health as very important issues? But no, they would like to prevent him from contesting because they fear that he would win. It’s as simple as that.
I should like to get back to Dele Momodu’s prevarications, admittedly written in jest, about Nigeria’s prospect of a one-party state under Brother Buhari. Paul Kagame has been in office now for over nineteen (19) years and is Africa’s most successful president today. His Rwanda is more or less a de facto one-party state by virtue of his having won the last presidential elections, more or less unopposed and by garnering 99% of the popular! Vote (there was no rigging…) that’s what it could be like in Nigeria if Nigerians were to unite behind a leader….
On Monday, 25 November 2019 16:31:20 UTC+1, OLAYINKA AGBETUYI wrote:
Charles Enya is a lunatic fit only for certification in an asylum!. It was people like him who misled past Nigerian leaders that if they extended their stay in office nothing would happen and subsequently resorted to rent-a- crowd theatrics.
Even when Buhari has stated expressly that age was not on his side and he took swearing by the holy book of his religion seriously on two term limit Enya's lunacy would not relent from his court clowning.
OAA.
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