Keyamo: Why I agreed to be Buhari campaign spokesperson
Human rights lawyer, Festus Keyamo, has disclosed the reason he accepted to serve as the official spokesperson for the President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election campaign “for the good of the country and for posterity.”
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, Keyamo said he found an approximation of the values he has fought for all his life in Mr Buhari.
According to the him, the reason he had not been seen in partisan politics was that he had been under intense public scrutiny while engaging successive military and civilian governments “in the most critical ways possible.”
He noted that another reason he accepted the offer was that Mr Buhari’s present government, unlike any other preceding it in the country, has recovered so much looted funds.
“I can boldly say that no government in the history of Nigeria has recovered so much looted funds as that of President Muhammadu Buhari.
"The fact that this government has clearly chosen this path in protecting the masses of our country (as unpleasant as it has been to some) is one of the many reasons why I am so proud and bold about my support for the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari,” he said.
The lawyer said said he took a cue from his late mentor, Gani Fawehinmi, as the only government he supported throughout his lifetime was that led by the then General Muhammdu Buhari from 1984 to 1985 “to the chagrin of some of his professional colleagues.”
He said Mr Fawehinmi saw what his colleagues could not see at that time, “because after Mr Buhari was overthrown, Nigeria witnessed its worst era in terms of institutionalising corruption and political deception.”
In the 2007 presidential elections, Mr Keyamo, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said Mr. Fawehinmi again endorsed Mr. Buhari in the following words: “When we talk of anti-corruption war, there is no way you will exclude General Buhari.
“I don’t want to hear what a political party is going to do, whether ANPP or PDP or NDP or which other political organisation. Tell me who is leading the party, tell me who is leading the government, that’s my concern. It’s a matter of leadership. This is a serious election, very serious one,” he recalled the late rights crusader as saying at the time.
According to Mr. Keyamo, some of the same forces and interests that saw the back of Mr Buhari in 1985 are still very much around as their voices have gotten louder of late.
"They want us to go back to our old ways, disguised as if they genuinely care for the masses of this country.
"When you look at the profile and ignoble antecedents of these characters – the emergency heroes, some of us have no option but to undertake this role we have been called upon to assume just to ensure that they do not succeed in their selfish enterprise,” he said.
Festus Keyamo
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen on Wednesday, Keyamo said he found an approximation of the values he has fought for all his life in Mr Buhari.
According to the him, the reason he had not been seen in partisan politics was that he had been under intense public scrutiny while engaging successive military and civilian governments “in the most critical ways possible.”
He noted that another reason he accepted the offer was that Mr Buhari’s present government, unlike any other preceding it in the country, has recovered so much looted funds.
“I can boldly say that no government in the history of Nigeria has recovered so much looted funds as that of President Muhammadu Buhari.
"The fact that this government has clearly chosen this path in protecting the masses of our country (as unpleasant as it has been to some) is one of the many reasons why I am so proud and bold about my support for the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari,” he said.
The lawyer said said he took a cue from his late mentor, Gani Fawehinmi, as the only government he supported throughout his lifetime was that led by the then General Muhammdu Buhari from 1984 to 1985 “to the chagrin of some of his professional colleagues.”
He said Mr Fawehinmi saw what his colleagues could not see at that time, “because after Mr Buhari was overthrown, Nigeria witnessed its worst era in terms of institutionalising corruption and political deception.”
In the 2007 presidential elections, Mr Keyamo, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said Mr. Fawehinmi again endorsed Mr. Buhari in the following words: “When we talk of anti-corruption war, there is no way you will exclude General Buhari.
“I don’t want to hear what a political party is going to do, whether ANPP or PDP or NDP or which other political organisation. Tell me who is leading the party, tell me who is leading the government, that’s my concern. It’s a matter of leadership. This is a serious election, very serious one,” he recalled the late rights crusader as saying at the time.
According to Mr. Keyamo, some of the same forces and interests that saw the back of Mr Buhari in 1985 are still very much around as their voices have gotten louder of late.
"They want us to go back to our old ways, disguised as if they genuinely care for the masses of this country.
"When you look at the profile and ignoble antecedents of these characters – the emergency heroes, some of us have no option but to undertake this role we have been called upon to assume just to ensure that they do not succeed in their selfish enterprise,” he said.
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