The Senior Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu says the president has no intention to amend the constitution to suit a third term ambition.
Garba said this to counter the online gossips and speculations that Buhari wants to yield to the campaign group asking him to go for the third term in office by amending the constitution to enable him the contest.
He said that “a group that calls itself Movement for the Approval of Buhari Third Term has been campaigning for a constitutional amendment to enable Buhari to run for a third term”
Garba has condemned the speculations, saying categorically that ”no such attempt will happen under this President”.
See tweets where he expressed the president’s thought;
The Presidency wishes to correct internet-based gossip and un-informed media commentary regarding presidential term limits, given credence by so-called support groups, staging street demonstrations asking President @MBuhari to do a third term.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) October 1, 2019
There are no circumstances – nor set of circumstances – under which President Buhari may seek to amend the Constitution regarding the two-term term limit on holding office as President.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) October 1, 2019
President Buhari intends to serve his full second elected term in office, ending 2023 – and then there shall be a general election in which he will not be a candidate.
— Garba Shehu (@GarShehu) October 1, 2019