{"id":913849,"date":"2022-01-06T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/why-i-wont-disclose-my-preferred-successors-identity-buhari\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:53:52","slug":"why-i-wont-disclose-my-preferred-successors-identity-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/why-i-wont-disclose-my-preferred-successors-identity-buhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Won\u2019t Disclose My Preferred Successor\u2019s Identity \u2013 Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_819288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-819288\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-819288 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Muhammadu-Buhari-1-1-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"2023: Why I Won\u2019t Disclose My Preferred Successor\u2019s Identity \u2013 Buhari\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-819288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Buhari<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he is not willing to reveal the identity of his anointed candidate for the safety of such a person.<\/p>\n<p>He stated this while responding to a question about who his preferred candidate was during an exclusive interview with Channels Television on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cIt is (a) secret.\u201d \u201cNo, I wouldn\u2019t say because he may be eliminated if I mention. I better keep it,\u201d the President stated with a smile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: I Don\u2019t Think APC Will Breakup After Buhari\u2019s Tenure \u2013 Governor Sule<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When asked if he was interested in who eventually succeeds him, he responded, \u201cNo. Let him come, whoever it is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll important things, I\u2019ll make sure that they are on record. Nobody should ask me to come and give any evidence in any court, otherwise whoever it is, he will be in trouble because all important things are on record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think my legacy is that I try to make sure that we conduct ourselves with integrity. That means we stopped all the stealing as much as the system can allow; we stopped misappropriation and for Nigerians that is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buhari Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he is not willing to reveal the identity of his anointed candidate for the safety of such a person. He stated this while responding to a question about who his preferred candidate was during an exclusive interview with Channels Television on Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}