Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari “is fit enough” to stand for re-election despite his ailing health and limited activities, the country’s transport minister has said.

The Guardian reports that Rotimi Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, one of the oil-rich states in the Niger Delta and currently of the two so-called super ministers in Buhari’s cabinet, believed the president’s infirmity was not serious enough to preclude him from putting in one more term.

“If you look at the president since he came to the country, you will see there is a huge improvement,” Amaechi, who was the director-general of Buhari’s campaign said on Channels Television’s Hard Copy. “He’s regaining his weight. This is a 74-year old man, he is no longer a 58-old man, he is not 50…he is not a young man.”

Buhari left Nigeria on January 19 for London to “undergo routine medical check-ups” during a short holiday. He only returned on March 10 after an extended period of medical treatment. He also hinted at the possibility of him going back for more treatment.

But what Nigerians should be more worried about, Amaechi said, is his ability [or lack thereof] to provide good leadership and deliver on the campaign promises he made, which were just three, according to the former Rivers governor.

“He made three [campaign promises]. The rest are propagandas, social media propagandas,” he said.

When asked if he would support Buhari if he stands for re-election in 2019, Amaechi replied in affirmative. “I will advise that he should,” he said.

“The president is fit enough to govern and if he makes the decision to run again, if he does, I don’t think there is anything wrong in supporting him.”

Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai recently expressed similar sentiments.

But in spite of Amaechi’s vote of confidence in Buhari’s health, there are still questions to be answered.

Shortly after his return from London on March, Buhari acknowledged he was terribly sick but did not disclose the true nature of his ailment.

“I couldn’t recall being so sick since I was a young man,” he said at a meeting with security chiefs and ministers. He also confessed to receiving “blood transfusions” and “going to the laboratories and so on and so forth”.

He has also been absent from the last couple of Federal Executive Council meetings usually held at the presidential villa, leaving Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to chair those meetings. The President was also missing the Juma’at prayer at Aso Villa mosque last Friday.

But the presidency insisted that there was no reason for Nigerians to panic. It said Buhari scale down his activities at the Nigerian seat of power on doctors’ advice.

“As eager as he is to be up and about, the President’s doctors have advised on his taking things slowly, as he fully recovers from the long period of treatment in the United Kingdom some weeks ago,” Buhari’s media aide Garbage Shehu said.

His absence at the last FEC meeting was a last minute decision, he said without stating what informed the decision.


http://www.thetrentonline.com/amaechi-buhari-2019-relections/

na wetin go kill the bubu naim amaechi dey find abeg, he should resign let younger blood come to power.

FTC , its not eazy.

Anytime i listen to or hear naija politians it becomes sadly obvious that nigeria has no future.

please Mr Amaechi should disclose those tiri campaign promises.

everybody wan turn Lai Mohammed!

this Ameachi no get shame..

no be all of una dey dish dey propaganda? or why you no tell us then..

anyway i understand say 14bill loot need to be covered..

politcians.

There is no hope for Nigeria as long as these people remain at the top.

Can't wait for 2019 to correct this mistake that is haunting us day and night

millik:
please Mr Amaechi should disclose those tiri campaign promises.

everybody wan turn Lai Mohammed!

travelling
increasing the exchange rate (naira & dollar ).&
increasing the price of goods

Sammy07:

travelling increasing the exchange rate (naira & dollar ).& increasing the price of goods

lol i don't know why he refused to mention them...

I know fools will look for three useless things to say. One thing is certain, We the kind of leaders we have , Nigeria is finished

Politicians will continue this way as long as the people
the govern are not speaking with one voice

The Trent?

Hmmm...
I watched Amaechi on @MaupeO show, HardCopy. I was disappointed. He said the government ran on 3 promises, to make it worse, he even struggled to recall 2 of theses promises.
I was pained.

What has Amaechi been smoking lately

Propaganda spread by the likes of liar Mohammed

millik:
please Mr Amaechi should disclose those tiri campaign promises.

everybody wan turn Lai Mohammed!

when they were opening their mouth too wide to talk rubbish they did not realize it will tell on them
liars, thief that called another person thief

at the rate aoc is recently churning out propaganda including fake news websites,i can only ask what's wrong with buhari? is he still alive?

What we see its what we get. Since we love voting shallow people always. Come 2019 majority will still vote in such people again

See this useless thief talking...

Amaechi should be confiscated to a mental asylum. Amaechi is an abobaku!

Poll: In light of the AJ twitter squabble who should we dash to Ghanians? Like for Lai Mohammed, share for Amaechi

thesicilian:
There is no hope for Nigeria as long as these people remain at the top.

Hope?

A propaganda you camp and the Dullard himself never bothered to debunk and even went on to win the election with it
I blame the Zombies, the Zombies and the Zombies alone.

Celcius:
Hmmm...
I watched Amaechi on @MaupeO show, HardCopy. I was disappointed. He said the government ran on 3 promises, to make it worse, he even struggled to recall 2 of theses promises.
I was pained.

Can you imagine? Political opportunists.

One chance govt.

WhereIsBuhari:
One chance govt.

Hmm

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