SAN FRANCISCO, February 22, (THEWILL) – The Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum of the All Progressives Party (APC), Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has requested for some time to decide if he wants to run for a second term.
Okorocha stated this when he briefed State House correspondents after a closed-door meeting between the President and the APC governors on Thursday night which held at the First Lady Conference Room in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He said the President would address the nation and the APC on the matter.
“We discussed so many issues that affect the nation, our party and Mr President’s ambition to run for 2019 elections,” he stated.
“Anyhow, Mr President in his usual manner has requested that we give him time and that he will address the nation and the caucus of the party very soon.
“So we should be full of expectations that Mr President will make officially known to Nigerians his intentions.
“But we hope that his response will be in line with what the governors are thinking, as it is the desire of the governors that the President seek re-election in view of his tremendous performances in the last two and half years.”
According to the governor, it is the desire of the governors that the President seek re-election in view of his tremendous performances in the last two and half years.
“We believe that if he continues Nigeria will be better for it,” he declared.
THEWILL recalls that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida had in an open letter addressed to the President asked him not to contest the 2019 presidential election.
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