The presidency on wednesday, June 17, invalidated reports in some newspapers that credited President Muhammadu Buhari as stating that he was too old to rule Nigeria.
Faulting the report, the prseidency said at 72, Buhari, like good wine, could only improve with age.
The clarification was contained in a statement issued by the president’s media aide, Mr. Femi Adesina.
He said: “On Monday evening, President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with the Nigerian community at the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa.
“Speaking extempore, because according to him, he wanted to ‘speak from the heart’, the president urged them to be good ambassadors of Nigeria, a country he went to the warfront to keep together.
“Still extolling the virtues of our country, Nigeria, the president, who had served as a military governor of the then North-eastern State at 33 years old, declared: ‘I wish I became head of state when I was a governor. Now at 72, there is a limit to what I can do’.”