Media aide to president Buhari, Femi Adesina, has disclosed that the president is yet to make known his intentions to run for the 2019 elections. Adesina made this known during an interview over the weekend. Adesina stated this while responding to a question of when Buhari would declare his intention for the 2019 general elections. Adesina continued saying Buhari is keeping mum for now so as not to get the opposition all up in his business as they may try everything within their power to dissuade him from running. “You know the peculiarity of Nigeria, particularly now. If the president speaks too early, it’s a problem. There is a lot of sabotage in the country. You have also heard so many have said ‘don’t run.’ Because they know that if the president runs, other people should just run away because they don’t have the foggiest chance in hell to beat him. 
So, they want to discourage him from running. Now, if he tells you ‘I’m going to run,’ and elections are still one year away, it gives them one year to sabotage the entire country from all fronts – politically, socially, economically – they would throw everything at him just to dissuade him from running. So, when you know that, why then do you speak early? I think it makes a lot of sense for you then to keep things close to your chest till it is time for you to then say, ‘ok, I’m running’ by which time they can do less damage.” 
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