JUST IN: 7 Northern Governors Declare Support For Buhari’s 2019 Reelection Bid

Governor Nasiru el-Rufa’i of Kaduna state, has revealed at least seven governors in Nigeria who are calling for the reelection of President Buhari in 2019.

According to the Kaduna governor, these governors coincidentally met in Abuja and decided to meet with Buhari and present their intention before for consideration.

Apart from Governor El-Rufa’i, other states’ governors are Abubakar Bello of Niger, Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe, Yahaya Bello of Kogi, Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano, Jibrilla Bindo of Adamawa and Simon Lalong of Plateau.

Speaking with state house correspondents after they all met with President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Friday, El-Rufa’i said: “We are politicians and those of us you see here want the president to contest the 2019 election, we have no apologies for that.

“We believe in Mr President, we want him to continue running the country in the right direction. People can speculate about 2019, we have no apologies.

“Whether they are right or wrong is beside the point. Everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion but as governors, and most of us here with the exception of Yobe governor, are first-term governors.

“We are interested in continuity and stability and we want the president to continue with that.

“Like our leader, the governor of Kano said, we just happen to be here by coincidence and we went to pray and decided to felicitate with the president and we feel satisfied that anytime we see him, he is getting better and better.’’