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‘Old age won’t deter Buhari from performing’

Old age is not a barrier to good performance for President Muhammadu Buhari as there were older leaders worldwide who delivered good governance, President of…

Old age is not a barrier to good performance for President Muhammadu Buhari as there were older leaders worldwide who delivered good governance, President of the Nigeria Voters Assembly (VOTAS) Comrade Mashood Erubami has said.

He said on Wednesday in a statement that performance and ability of Buhari to deliver on public service to meeting the high expectations which the change mantra of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has thrown up can never be solely determined by his age, saying there are global examples of those who came into government at much older ages and still performed to expectation.

He said a French General Charles de Gaulle was a French general born 22 November 1890; he rescued his nation when they were in problem like ours. He was still in power till 1969 at age 79. There was the UK General Winston Churchill Born on 30 November 1874 and was in power till 1951 at age 77 because he helped to restructure their nation. He was the British Prime Minister and leader during the WWII.

“There was the American General George Washington, was the first President of the United States (1789–1797), the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and there was China’s Mao Zedong who was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the  founding father of the People’s Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976 at age 84,” Erubami said.

While listing late Nelson Mandela of South Africa, who was born in 1918, became President of South Africa in1994 at 76 years before he stepped down for Thabo Mbeki at age 80, Erubami also mentioned President Jose Eduardo Santos of Angola who is 72 and would be president till 2020 at78 years, and also President Abde Bourtefilka of Algeria who is 77, and will be in office till 2020 at 83 years old.

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