Nigeria’s President Confessions: Why I can’t Give My Best - Says Buhari
Nigeria’s President Buhari has publicly declared that he would have loved being a President when he was at a younger age. The president who will be 73years old on December 17, 2015, spoke with Nigerians resident in South Africa on Monday after taking part in the 25th assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Johannesburg.
The former military governor at age 33 and former Head of State at the age of 40 said, “I wish I became Head of State when I was a governor, just a few years as a young man. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do.” But despite this, the president gave assurances that his administration would make a difference. “Our government is determined to secure the country, manage the economy, create employment and fight corruption. Some articulate writers have said if we do not kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria. This APC administration intends to kill corruption in Nigeria. We will do our best, I assure you,” Buhari stated.
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Buhari continued, “Why did I join partisan politics in spite of that? When I went home people knew that I have no money and I thought they will leave me alone, but they didn’t. They were coming to me asking me to do this and do that. I found out that the only way I could do it is by joining partisan politics. And maybe if I speak even if I’m not a member at any level, people will listen to me.”
“But then I joined the opposition (the All Peoples Party). I didn’t want any political office at first, if I wanted, I would have joined the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party) then and maybe I would have got to where I am much earlier. But then, I wanted to go with the opposition. The second thing that finally convinced me to join partisan politics was what happened in the Soviet Union. You know the Soviet Union was an empire in the 20th century that collapsed without a shot being fired.”
