President Buhari hasn’t formally announced that he’ll seek re-election, but there’s every reason to believe he will. A few days after rats famously chased President Muhammadu Buhari out of his office space in August, I asked a senior aide of the president if the C-in-C was harbouring thoughts of a re-election ahead of the 2019 general election.It was also a few days after Buhari returned from a medical vacation abroad where he spent over 100 days holed up in a UK apartment. I wanted this aide to shed more light on the thinking inside Aso Rock concerning a Buhari re-election; given that the president was widely believed to be nursing an ailment that could mean he wouldn’t be able to endure the rigours of another electioneering campaign. “He’s fit as a fiddle”, this aide announced unequivocally. “He hasn’t told us he’d run, but if he decides to, no one can stop him. The president is very healthy right now and his stay in London had nothing to do with a terminal ailment. He has fully recovered”, the aide announced.
