It' too Early for Buhari to Discuss 2019 Race – Aide

President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhamamdu Buhari's conviction is that it is too soon to discuss 2019 decisions when there are numerous vital issues around his work area.

The President's Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, states this on his Twitter handle, @BashirAhmaad, on Thursday.

Ahmad was responding to a report by Reuters citing the President as saying in a radio meeting that he still couldn't seem to choose on the off chance that he would re-challenge or not.

The medium has since pulled back the report.

Prior to the report was pulled back, Ahmad had clarified that Buhari did not allow any radio meeting.

He expressed, "This report from @Reuters isn't valid. President @MBuhari didn't give any radio meeting where he discussed 2019 race.

"For Mr. President, it's too soon to begin discussing one year from now's decisions when there are such huge numbers of imperative and squeezing issues around his work area."

In the interim, the Presidency on Thursday cited a London-based magazine,The Economist, as repudiating a production which guaranteed that Nigerians have demonstrated exceptional level of tolerance with Buhari.

The production is said to have been making the rounds on the web-based social networking and on a few sites in the nation, and past.

In an announcement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, the Presidency charged Nigerians to be careful and prudent about the sort of data they are presented to, and share, "particularly in this period when purveyors of phony news flourish."

Adesina cited a January 18 letter for the magazine's Africa Editor, Jonathan Rosenthal, as repudiating the report.

The letter read, "It has become obvious that an article has been flowing via web-based networking media and been distributed on different sites that implies to have been composed or distributed by The Economist.

"The article with the feature 'The Unprecedented Level of Patience Shown to Buhari' was not composed nor distributed by The Economist. Any cases associating it to The Economist are false."