A close ally of President
Muhammadu Buhari, Mohammed Lawal, who served as Deputy Director,
Coordination/Implementation of the APC Presidential Campaign Council in 2015,
has said it would be difficult to oust a sitting president on the pages of
newspapers.
He also dismissed speculations
that key people in the APC were planning to leave for the opposition.
According to him, “increasing
criticism and gang up will not force President Buhari out of the contest in the
event he decides to go for a second term.”
He said many people and groups
were uncomfortable with President Buhari’s ‘pro-masses’ approach to governance,
hence were deploying various tricks and sense of insecurity to undermine his
popularity.
In an interview with Daily trust, Lawal said: “We are in politics; we would tackle any opposition, any group or
gang up, be it a coalition or third force or whatever.
“Now, who among the APC leaders
enjoying the comfort of government either as an appointee or elected official
could afford to go and fish in a deep, dark, torturous and murky waters of
political uncertainty?”
“But I wish them good luck. It is
just that we are not bragging and shouting the way they (opposition) are doing
but the time would soon come. We don’t want to distract the government for now;
we want the government to concentrate on doing what it has been elected to do
but very soon we would devote our attention one hundred per cent to
politicking,” he said.
Lawal also accused ex-President
Obasanjo of attempting to sabotage the administration of President Buhari.
“What ex-President Obasanjo is
doing is not the way to express patriotism; Obasanjo is just fuelling tension
and causing a lot of apprehension.
“He is still feeling Buhari era
is like late Yar’adua era or Goodluck Jonathan era that he planted. We would
not fold our hands this time around. We would fight back strongly. If the
Federal Government is so careful in speaking out, we the supporters of
President Buhari would not sit down and look,” he said.
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