Presidential Election: IBB Congratulates Buhari, Lauds Atiku's Doggedness.
Updated March 2, 2019Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida , has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the presidential election.“I wish to congratulate President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR on his re-election to lead Nigeria in the next four years,” said the former military president.
He also congratulated the electorate for conducting themselves peacefully during the voting process, stressing that they were enthusiastic to exercise their democratic rights of electing candidates of their choice. “The President must resist the temptation to see them as enemies; not even opponents, but fellow compatriots who merely disagreed with him on how best to move our country forward.”
The elder statesman also asked President Buhari to must pay priority attention to the security issues he highlighted and be creative in improving the economy. In a similar development, IBB commended and conveyed his admiration to the other contestants for the office of president. “I was not surprised that even though he lost the most exotic position of the land, his doggedness and pattern of support cut across ethnic, religious and regional lines that earned him the second position of the last Presidential election.”
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