The Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari, Garba Shehu, on Tuesday
said President Buhari will win the Presidential election if he contests
again.
Speaking to state house correspondents during a press briefing in
Abuja to mark the 2nd year anniversary of this government, Garba said
President Buhari has done well and that no one can judge this
administration based on the two years it has spent in office. He said:
“You cannot write the report card of this administration in two years.
The mandate is four years and it is too early in the day. You don’t
reach definite term in the mid-term. We will have a lot more to fulfill.
If anybody tells you APC has failed, tell them it’s too early in the
day, we still have two years, it’s a four year term”.
Also lending his voice, Special Adviser to President Buhari on media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said:
“People can always express their opinions, there is liberty on that but
you don’t have a scientific survey that has given you the percentage of
people that believed that the APC has failed. The second point is that,
when a government via a party is voted into office, it is voted for a
four year term under our own democratic arrangement. When you have spent
two years which is like a midterm, the first half of a game, you don’t
then determined that it has succeeded or it has failed. No. You can be
accused of being atomistic using a small part to determine the whole.
You can’t write the report card of this administration when it is just
hitting the half way mark, that will not be fair. This administration
will take Nigeria far beyond how it met it. So if anybody says APC has
failed just tell them is too early in the day because is a four
year-term and this is just two years. You don’t reach definitive
conclusions in two years.’’
Reacting to rumors of a coup attempt and the statement released by the
Chief of Army Staff warning soldiers to steer clear from politics,
Adesina said:
“What the Chief of Army Staff said was a routine warning that goes to
military officers, don’t hobnob with politicians and the army has
explained the position. Let’s take that position and not stretch it
beyond what the military has said because they are the ones that can
give us the definitive position and they have spoken on it.’’