Oyegun’s shocking confession: Buhari no longer popular

– National chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has confessed confesses that President Buhari no longer enjoys the level of support he had prior to his election

– He reasoned that this is partly because of the current economic challenges facing the country and which foundation was laid by previous administrations

– He however maintained that the president would meet the yearnings of the people as he has often promised

The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari has lost popularity.

John Oyegun, APC chairman, with President Muhammadu Buhari

The president is no longer as popular as he was during the 2015 general election, Daily Post quoted Oyegun as saying.

Some days ago, Oyegun had said that Nigeria has regained its rightful place among other nations in the world because of the efforts put in place by the current administration to re-right the wrongs of previous governments.

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Oyegun said: “All governments worldwide in between terms lose some degree of popularity; no question about that.

“We are having harsh economic times, no question about that and that does not increase the popularity of any government. It only diminishes it to some extent.

“What is different is that, in our case, in spite of the harsh economic realities, the people still have full confidence, trust, I think that is the proper word, in President Buhari that he will do his very best to improve their lot and I think the proof of that was the reaction to the threatened strikes by the labour unions.

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“You can see that even though people are unhappy, they refused to come out because they understood.

“They are in pain but they understood why the pain was there and they trusted the president that he was doing everything within his power to ameliorate their pain.

“So yes, there is a lot of grumbling all over the place, but also there is a lot of trust in Mr President.

“On internal crisis in some states, including Kano, Bayelsa and Kogi, Oyegun said APC was attending to each of them.

“In every case, we are making progress. Bayelsa should be concluded in a matter of weeks. Kano is basically a personality thing and we’ve got everybody to sheathe their swords for now.

“And I think that has happened. Kano has cooled off. We also have issues in Kogi State which we are also attending to. That is the only way you know a government that is in power.

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“If we were in opposition, there won’t be skirmishes in these states because there would be nothing to skirmish over but since we are in power, people are still struggling for relative importance within the system with an eye on tomorrow.

“These things are normal, they are expected but we’ve developed that habit of democratic consultation and reconciliation and it is working,” the report which also quoted Punch said.

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