It’s not possible for anyone to overthrow Buhari govt, says Presidency

The Presidency, on Friday, disclosed that nobody can overthrow the government of the President Muhammadu Buhari.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, talked on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ programme monitored by Top Naija.

Shehu depicted severance activists as “charlatans” sponsored to intimidate the President, thinking he will tremble or fright. He declared that the Buhari government will not be ejected out of power by any group via blackmail.

The Presidency emphasised that the Buhari government was elected through democratic means. It further urged power-grabbers to wait for two more years to assume power in 2023 during the elections.

Increasing dissatisfaction, disappointment and insecurity in the nation had made a few people proclaim their support for Yoruba Nation and Biafra Republic.

Famous Yoruba rights extremist, Sunday Adeyemo likewise called Sunday Igboho; and also the Chairman of socio-political group, the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, Prof Banji Akintoye, and other advocates of self-government had last week professed their loyalty to the Yoruba Nation.

An ex-militant in the Niger Delta region, Mujahid Asari-Dokubo, had also lately declared himself as the head of the new Biafra actual Customary Government in the South-East.

However, talking on Friday, Shehu appealed to people with “strong ambitions” to wait for an additional two years to contest in the 2023 presidential election.

He said, “I want to assure Nigerians that the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is addressing multiple challenges that are facing the country, especially in dealing with security and yet we are still making progress in agriculture, economy, anti-corruption, which are the key policies that brought the party and the government to office.

“It is sad for the country that opposition is exploiting some of these things. It is quite unfortunate and I want to assure that the president remains focused on preserving the security and unity of this country.

“It is an established fact that all nations of the world face problems and what is expected of all well-meaning members of the society is that they should team up with the government so that together we will all fight criminality and insurgency and all that.

“We accept that dissent is allowed, this is a democracy and people have a right to tell the truth to government but we must be careful in doing that. Nobody can bring down the government because this is a government elected democratically.

“Government in a democracy come through periodic elections and if we have a government in office as we have, sponsored by political parties to win the elections, it is telling you that that confidence of the public is still there.

“People with strong ambitions, wait till four years, in fact, in our case, two more years to go to election and President Buhari will not be a candidate in that election.”