Adams Oshiomhole, national
chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) is behind the rumours that President Muhammadu Buhari wants another
term.
Oshiomhole said this on Thursday
while speaking with reporters after meeting with Buhari at the state house.
In his New Year message, the
president insisted that he will not seek a third term in office. This irked the
opposition party and it said Buhari and his party will have no option but to
leave power in 2023.
But Oshiomhole said the president
needed to reassure Nigerians that he would not seek a third term in office
because the opposition party planted the propaganda.
“I am surprised to see that there
are people who begin to wonder why should the President reassure Nigerians that
he is not going to do third term in office… third term was planted by PDP,” the
chairman said.
“It is still in the sub-consciousness
of most Nigerians that the first (sic) Nigerian president tried to do third
term, emptied the treasury to bribe members of the national assembly and since
that president left, thanks to the national assembly, no other next president
has done eight years in office.
“You can recall that President
Yar’Adua unfortunately has since joined his ancestors, and President Jonathan
did six years and so by the special grace of God, this President (Buhari) whom
we pray will do his eight years complete in line with the provision of the
constitution.
“And because there is a level of
idleness within a section of the political class people can sponsor all kinds
of publications and to give doubt whether or not the President is planning to
stay longer.
“And I think it is his decision
that at every interval he needs to remind Nigerians that he is not about to do
what a PDP President did. For me it is necessary and in any case it costs us
nothing to reassure us that ‘I am leaving’.’’
