Muhammadu Buhari gears up for a second presidential term
Another run for Baba Go Slow?
THE
mantle of power is so heavy in Nigeria that presidential candidates
must be begged to run for office, or at least give that appearance.
There was no serious doubt that the current president, Muhammadu Buhari,
would run in 2015; that was his fourth attempt to win through the
ballot box. Yet even he had to maintain the fiction ahead of that vote,
with allies saying that they had pleaded with him to stand. Now, little
more than a year away from the next presidential election in 2019, the
theatrics are starting again.
In September 2017 the communications minister, Adebayo Shittu, was appointed to chair a “dynamic support group” to campaign for Mr Buhari’s re-election. The name seems over-energetic for a candidate who was nicknamed “Baba Go Slow” during his lethargic first few years in office. “He has not made up his mind but...some of us can assist him in making up his mind,” Mr Shittu said. A month earlier the president visited Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, where he coyly refused to accept the endorsement of the local chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
In September 2017 the communications minister, Adebayo Shittu, was appointed to chair a “dynamic support group” to campaign for Mr Buhari’s re-election. The name seems over-energetic for a candidate who was nicknamed “Baba Go Slow” during his lethargic first few years in office. “He has not made up his mind but...some of us can assist him in making up his mind,” Mr Shittu said. A month earlier the president visited Kano, the largest city in northern Nigeria, where he coyly refused to accept the endorsement of the local chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
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