Tiffbuxas:
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday declared his intention to seek re-election in the forthcoming 2019 general elections.
The president made his plan known to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress.
The president said he was responding to the clamour by Nigerians to re-contest in 2019, adding that he wanted to give NEC the honour of notifying them first.
Meanwhile, in an interview he granted Sunday Trust four years before his victory, Mr Buhari said he would contest for only one term due to his old age.
Also, 20 days after his swearing-in, Mr Buhari made reference to the old age again, saying he would have loved being a president when he was at a younger age.
Born on December 17, 1942, Mr Buhari became the military governor of North-eastern state in 1975 at 33.
After a successful coup ousting the second republic government of Shehu Shagari, he became the Head of State in 1983, at the age of 40. He held this post until 1985.
Mr Buhari came back to the political scene in the 4th Republic when he sought to be a civilian president under the All Nigerian Peoples’ Party (ANPP). He lost the presidential elections in 2003, 2007 and 2011.
Mr Buhari, profiting from a merger of opposition parties, defeated his incumbent opponent, Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, to emerge president from then one-year old APC in 2015.
With his re-election intent now made public, Nigerians have questioned Mr Buhari for going against promises he made.


The president made the one-term announcement in an interview conducted by Theophilus Abbah of Sunday Trust newspaper where Mr Buhari stated he won’t seek re-election. It was published on February 6, 2011.
Below are Mr Buhari’s response to whether or not he would seek re-election.
You have been quoted as saying if you don’t win the election in 2011 you wouldn’t go to court?
Yes, I said that!
Even if you have evidence that you are rigged out?
Having been in court for 50 months between 2003 and 2008, if I’m rigged out again, I will not go to court. I will leave the party to deal with the case. The CPC can, but I, as the presidential candidate, I’ve made up my mind never to go to court again on that issue.
Is it because of the expenses involved?
There is the expenses, but look at what happened in 2007. The decision of the case split the Supreme Court in the middle. But look at what they came up with.
Why did you say you will do just one term, if elected?
I’m not getting younger. If I succeed and do one term, I will be 73 years old.
If you’re doing just one term, you may want to urgently do some things? What are they?
There are two issues and I have said it in one sentence. Security and power. This country has to be secured and managed. People in Nigeria must not go about fearing that they would be abducted. You must not be afraid to the point that you can’t drive from Kaduna to Kano any time of the day. If you are in Lagos, you should have jobs to the point that you can afford to have three shifts in a day. That is eight hours each. But people are now very scared wherever they are. People have built houses worth over a billion naira, but they are afraid to live in them. What is the use? So, security is number one.
Number two is structure. We have to revive the electricity sector so that people will have access to power to carry out their businesses. Others include the roads, the railways, the shipping lines. We used to have all these things. In spite of what we earned in the last eleven years, the whole infrastructure has already collapsed.
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fallout87:
Buhari is a liar.

No one should be shocked. He is also power hungry and corrupt to his core.

Itimkpataka2:
Don't mind The hipocrisy of the Daura man. Next year we will send him to Daura to complete his 2nd term in
His 150cows that never increase or deplete.

I Am Itimkpataka

baliyubla:
Of course you will only serve one term, one that has being an unmitigated disaster. We have to give it to the dullard for being prophetic.

Itimkpataka2:
Don't mind The hipocrisy of the Daura man. Next year we will send him to Daura to complete his 2nd term in
His 150cows that never increase or deplete.

I Am Itimkpataka