Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, has stated that Muhammadu Buhari deserves to be reelected next year and will defeat anyone that chooses to contest against him.
Shehu made this declaration in an interview in Abuja.
Asked if he would advise Buhari to re-contest, he said: “Yes I will because he richly deserves a second term in office.”
On the call by Buhari’s contemporaries for him to retire, the presidential aide said it they like, the can come out and run against the president.
“My response to them is that if they like they can come and contest against president Buhari. He will defeat them, all of them.”
On his advice for Nigerians who think that Buhari should not be talking about the second term when people are hungry, Shehu responded: “With all the noise the PDP is making, even during their tenure as president, did they give breakfast lunch and dinner to every citizen?
“Is there any country in which someone does not go hungry? I am not saying it is perfectly in order but they are just politicizing these issues.
“This is a government that has removed this country from the shame of food importation, every state of the country now is into rice production, and we are feeding not only Nigeria but to West Africa.
“And the government is working on having respectable prices for food items, food inflation is coming down grossly.
“Everyone complaining of hunger should go and work.
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“And you know that this is the only government that has introduced social investment schemes. We pay out now for the poorest of the poor, the least they will get is N5,000 and a lot of these jobs that are been created are from loans with little or no interest from the central bank, Bank of industry, Banks of Agriculture, Development BBank and the rest.
“So, there is a lot going for people who really want to go out there to work especially in Agriculture.”
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