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, and would run in 2015; that was his fourth attempt to win through the ballot box. Yet even he had to preserve the fiction ahead of that vote,with allies saying that they had pleaded with him to stand. Now, small more than a year away from the next presidential election in 2019, or 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 move Slow” during his lethargic first few years in office. He has not made up his intellect but...some of us can assist him in making up his intellect, or ” Mr Shittu said. A month earlier the president visited Kano,the largest city in northern Nigeria,...
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Source: economist.com