Fisayo Falodi
The National Coordinator of Rights Monitoring Group, Mr. Olufemi Aduwo, on Tuesday, described as laughable a recent comment by the senator representing Zamfara-West senatorial district, Sani Yerima, that President Muhammadu Buhari deserved to seek a re-election.
Aduwo said Yerima had the right to express his opinion but canvassing a re-election for Buhari when the President had yet to spend a quarter of his first term in office was pointless.
The senator had told journalists in Abuja last Thursday that Buhari deserved to seek a second term in office because the President had something new to offer.
“As far as I am concerned, President Buhari must go for a second term. You see, he has come back with something new; the man is incorruptible,” Yerima had said.
But Aduwo, who spoke with our correspondent on the telephone on Tuesday, asked Yerima to convince Nigerians why Buhari should be re-elected after the President and his political party, the All Progressives Congress, had denied all the promises they made to the citizens.
He said, “Yerima is a politician and most of Nigeria’s politicians want to be in the good book of the President. By and large, anybody can push Buhari to seek re-election, but Yerima must understand that Nigerians are becoming wiser.
“It is the performance of Buhari that would determine his fate but with due respect to the President, age will not be on his side by the end of his first tenure; he will be 77 by then.
“Buhari said some months ago that he wished he was younger, which means the President knows that he won’t be ready to present himself for re-election in 2019.
“I am sure the APC will allow him to only serve for one term. So, Yerima is just a noisemaker and a jester.”
The human rights activist, however, asked Yerima to state genuine parameters on which he adjudged the President fit for re-election in 2019.
He asked, “What are the parameters Yerima is using to judge the President? Is it his performance? Age is not on the side of the President, he cannot serve beyond one term. Yerima is only seeking relevance.”
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