Read his article below…
Before Buhari joined APC, he considered himself already too old to
serve more than one term. He also vowed to fix security and power
supply.
In a February 2011 interview, Theophilus Abbah, asked Buhari:
Why did you say you will do just one term, if elected?
Buhari: “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?
Buhari: “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.”Buhari later joined APC and became president in 2015. He’s spent a
large chunk of his tenure receiving medical treatment in London
apparently due to old age.It took the president, who said he’d move with speed, six months to name a cabinet. Baba Go Slow.When, two years into his tenure, he made some board appointments, dead people featured on the list. #TheWorkingDead.
He’s now 75 and there are talks about him seeking reelection.
Buhari recently said he wasn’t sure how old he was and had to be
reminded of his age. Dementia? That perhaps could explain why he may not
remember telling Nigerians he’d only run for one term, should he run
again.And, by the way, power supply is still terrible. And security? Well,
Boko Haram has been “technically defeated” while murderous herdsmen are
issuing press releases all over the place.
