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2019: Controversy over why PMB is contesting, unnecessary – Labour

General Secretary of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN), Issa Aremu has described the reported announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari of his intention to seek re-election in 2019 as largely a constitutional matter.

Aremu in a press statement said, “For us in the labour movement, 1999 Constitution of Nigeria allows for two term tenure for the President if elected. Same for governors and open ended for legislators.”
Aremu who is also a NEC member of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) said President Muhammadu Buhari certainly has the right under the 1999 Constitution to seek re-election for second term in office.
He argued that the same Constitution allows all eligible citizens to exercise their rights to vote and be voted for.
He further alluded that the controversy over why the  President is contesting or not  is therefore unnecessary adding, “He has that right for re-election.”
“What is also clear is that Labour will also exercise its constitutional rights to vote based on critical assessment of all political office holders with respect to decent work, decent pay, employment, cost of living, security and building of a prosperous, fair, just and united Nigeria,” he added.

hehu Sani reacts to Buhari’s intention to ru

Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central district in the National Assembly  has reacted to President Muhammadu Buhari’s intention to run for a second term.

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President Buhari on Monday revealed his intention to run again at the closed-door meeting of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC). He said he wanted to seek re-election in response to the clamour by Nigerians for him to do so.

He also told the party’s NEC that he wanted to give them the honour to notify them first, of his second term ambition.

Reacting, Sani in a tweet said,”Now that Baba decided not to be a Mandela,we hope he become a Deng Xioping and not Augustus Pinochet Agarte




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