BEVERLY HILLS, April 02, (THEWILL) – Garba Shehu, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari, has declared that former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida would lose if they contest against President Muhammadu Buhari.
THEWILL recalls that Obasanjo and Babangida had written letters to the President asking him not to run in 2019.
Speaking at an interactive session with state house correspondents, Shehu declared that the President ‘richly’ deserves a second term in office.
He added that rather than asking Buhari not to contest in 2019, the former leaders should contest against him next year.
“My response to them is that if they like they can come and contest against President Buhari. He will defeat them, all of them,” Shehu said.
“With all the noise the PDP is making, even during their tenure, 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 politicising these issues. This is a government that has removed this country from the shame of food importation.
“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.
“So, there is a lot going for people who really want to go out there to work, especially in agriculture.”
Shehu also described the amnesty the president granted to Boko Haram members as a “win-win situation” which would help the insurgents to “be useful to the nation.”
He also said the measure would help the government save cost by channelling funds used in the war against insurgency to other areas.
“It is proverbially said all wars end up in the boardroom. You can defeat people technically on the field but at the end, you must come to the conference room to resolve all issues ” he said.
“So, if Boko Haram would lay down their arms and stop fighting and stop preaching their negative ideology, the country should be able to embrace them; welcome all of them so that they continue to live normal lives and be useful to the nation.
“What that means is that we will be saving cost, saving lives that are being lost through bombing, killing of service personnel and we will be saving money that we are using to procure weapons so that such money can go into services and infrastructure and welfare of the citizens of this country. It is a win-win situation.”
