President Muhammadu Buhari has said he cannot wait to leave office and return to his hometown, Daura in Katsina State, after handing over power to whoever emerges as the next president in the 2023 election.
The president also noted that he will stay away from partisan politics as well as the Federal Capital Territory when he leaves office on May 29, 2023.
Buhari said this while hosting residents of the FCT who paid him Christmas homage at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
He said, “Thank you very much for taking your time to come and visit me and I congratulate you on this great day (Christmas).
“I have promised a lot of my colleagues that I will try and be as far away as possible from Abuja when I leave the office so that nobody can create any problems for me anymore.
“I will be in Daura, which is on the border with the Niger Republic and I think in spite of technology, I will be safe enough there.”
Reiterating that he will not stay in office beyond May 29, Buhari said, “I thank God that before the 2019 elections I went around the whole of the states and in 2003-2011, I went to all the local governments in this country and I thank Nigerians, the people who turned up in every local government were more than what anyone can buy.
“So, I was pleased with the way Nigerians highly treated me and accepted me. In five months’ time, I will happily retire according to the provisions of the constitution of the country and go back home.”
