JUST IN: Buhari To Address Nigerians On January 1

President Muhammadu Buhari will address Nigerians via a nationwide broadcast on New Year’s Day. 

The president’s senior media assistant, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a terse statement posted on his Twitter page on Thursday. 

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Shehu urged the public to hook on to the network services of the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) at 7 am on Friday for the broadcast. 

He said other television, radio and electronic media outlets would be joining the NTA and FRCN network services to broadcast the address. 

Shehu did not mention what areas Buhari’s address would focus on, but the president is expected to address the citizens on challenges bordering on insecurity, economic recession and the Federal Government’s plan to curb the second wave of COVID-19 in the country. 

THE WHISTLER recalls that in his 2020 New Year message, Buhari reiterated that he won’t be manipulating Nigeria’s Constitution to seek a third term in office. 

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“I will be standing down in 2023 and will not be available in any future elections. But I am determined to help strengthen the electoral process both in Nigeria and across the region, where several ECOWAS members go to the polls this year,” he had said.

The president had pledged that his administration’s “actions at all times will be governed by the rule of law”, while also assuring Nigeria’s neighbours that the government would open the country’s land borders once it was sure that they had adhered to the agreement to curb smuggling in the country. 

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