Although Nigerians will be electing a new president on Saturday, the incumbent president, Muhammadu Buhari, appears to have concluded that the candidate of his party, Bola Tinubu, will win the election.
Mr Buhari, Monday, told the President of the Union of Comoros, Azali Assouman, that he would brief his successor ‘from his party’ on the relationship between the two countries.
“I will brief my next successor from my party on keeping this important relationship,” the Nigerian leader was quoted as saying by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, in a Monday statement.
Mr Shehu did not elaborate on the import of the statement by the president but said Mr Buhari made the statement before his departure from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he was on official duty.
There has been controversy around the stance of Mr Buhari regarding Saturday’s presidential election.
While the president has repeatedly said he will support his party’s candidate, he has also repeatedly promised a…
