Buhari Shoots Down Rumours Of Third Term, Says ‘I Won’t Make The Mistake’

President Muhammadu Buhari has refuted reports that he was nursing a bid to remain in office beyond the conditionally allowed two terms in office.

Buhari said this at the ongoing National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“I’m not going to make the mistake of attempting a third term. Besides the age, the constitution makes provision for only two terms,” he said.

The president’s statement is coming about three weeks after his media aide, Garba Shehu, also denied the alleged third term plot.

“There are no circumstances – nor a set of circumstances – under which President Buhari may seek to amend the Constitution regarding the two-term term limit on holding office as President,” Buhari’s media aide, Garba Shehu, had said in statement in October.

THE WHISTLER had reported how the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) cautioned President Buhari against attempting to run for another term after the expiration of his second term in 2023.

The PDP had said the bid was “a dangerous underhand politics capable of derailing our democracy and destabilizing our nation,” adding that “…it is preposterous for the Presidency cabal and the APC to think that Nigerians cannot see through their shenanigan to import and elevate what they labeled as rumor and internet-based gossip, into official national discourse.

“Our party notes that Nigerians will not be surprised when, after the statements by the Presidency and APC, new groups surface to orchestrate more forceful agitations in the public space for the alteration of the 1999 Constitution to achieve an ignoble aim,” the party had said in statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan.