PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES BMO 3.; President Muhammadu Buhari (M) addresses the Members of the Organisation. With him are SGF, Mr. Boss Mustapha, SSAP Mallam Garba Shehu and PA on Social Media, Lauretta Onochia during an audience with Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) at t he State House in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. JUNE 1ST 2018
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2019 Elections: Buhari worried about opposition cash stockpile, says APC may not match opposition financial muscle 

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In months leading to the 2019 elections, President Muhammadu Buhari Friday says  the enormous resources at the disposal of the opposition may be a factor as the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may not be able to match.

He said the ruling party might not be able to flex financial muscle with opposition parties and candidates.

Buhari  also sympathized with those defending him and his administration describing it as a herculean task in the midst of opposition.

“I don’t think I can thank you enough for your steadfastness under very difficult circumstances. It is not easy to defend this administration and more in particular to defend me, he said, while receiving members of the Buhari Midia Organisation who paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

PRESIDENT BUHARI RECEIVES BMO 1.; President Muhammadu Buhari (M) flanked by Chief of Staff Mallam Abba Kyari, Chairman of the Organisation, Hon Austin Briamoh, SGF, Mr. Boss Mustapha, SSAP Mallam Garba Shehu, PA on Social Media, Lauretta Onochia, Sunday Aghaeze, PA to the President on Photography and other Members of the Organisation during an audience with Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) at t he State House in Abuja. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE. JUNE 1ST 2018.

” But your consistency has given me a lot of confidence. And I know you are doing it as a sacrifice both physical, mental and material. Because, as I keep on saying the opposition now are sitting on incredible resources which I am afraid we might not match it at all. For that reason the opposition is sponsoring mischief from different angles which in spite of the incumbency of government we cannot absolutely stop. ”

“It is you that are fighting it and I cannot thank you enough for that. Most of the people I jailed had given back all what they have taken before I was jailed. I spent 18 months in detention and luckily they did not find anything against me and I was released. But my problem was that there was a journalist from Edo State, I have forgotten his name now, he wrote that my mother had to die to save me. Because I was only released when my mother died to go and bury her, of course you know according to the Muslim tradition you are buried where you die.

“So I can remember most of you here sitting, the sacrifices you have made in terms of materialism even losing friends to continue to support me. I have been here for three years, you have proven to people that you are not here for material things, your opinion is out of sacrifice and the strength of the moral courage you have is the the strength of the physical, it is the strength of losing the friends you have.

“I am sure you are being asked, this support you are busy giving Buhari what the hell do you get out of it? And that is why I commend your steadfastness and I am very grateful for it. And in this country whether people like it or not, they will remain grateful for your courage because you have the courage to do the research, take your time to reply mischivious representation and we are very grateful.”

 

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