Buhari Is No Drama King, He’ll Speak On Coronavirus When The Time Is Right – FG

The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu has come out to say that Muhammadu Buhari will speak to Nigerians on the Coronavirus outbreak if the need arises.

Garba revealed that the people can only expect the president to come out and address them if the situation is warranted.

According to him, Buhari is a man of action and he is no drama king or showman like some unsatisfied Nigerians want him to be.

He added that the president has competent people doing good work to curb the spread of the virus and WHO has even commended the country for a job well done so far.

His words, “At the right trajectory, when the president finds it appropriate to address the nation, he will.”

“Is it action … or are they yearning for drama and showmanship? Are they yearning for photo ops?

“This president, President Muhammadu Buhari, is not cut out for showmanship, and not for drama.

“He has competent people doing enormous good job, commended by the World Bank and put forward as a template for other nations to copy. We are satisfied with what is going on.”

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Muhammadu Buhari GCFR (born 17 December 1942) is a Nigerian politician currently serving as the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015. He is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and previously served as the nation’s head of state from 31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985, after taking power in a military coup d’état. The term Buharism is ascribed to the Buhari military government.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of president of Nigeria in the 2003, 2007, and 2011 general elections. In December 2014, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the March 2015 general elections. Buhari won the election, defeating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. This marked the first time in the history of Nigeria that an incumbent president lost to an opposition candidate in a general election. He was sworn in on 29 May 2015. In February 2019, Buhari was re-elected President, defeating his closest rival Atiku Abubakar by over 3 million votes.

Buhari has stated that he takes responsibility for anything over which he presided during his military rule, and that he cannot change the past. He has described himself as a “converted democrat”.

Muhammadu Buhari was born to a Fulani family on 17 December 1942, in Daura, Katsina State, to his father Hardo Adamu, a Fulani chief, and mother Zulaihat. He is the twenty-third child of his father. Buhari was raised by his mother, after his father died when he was about four years old.