Ahead of the 2019 general elections, President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday maintained that there are enormous resource in the hand of the opposition parties in the country.
According to him, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may not be able to match it.
He also expressed sympathy for those defending him and his administration describing it as a hucullian task in the midst of opposition.
President Buhari made the remark while receiving members of the Buhari Media Organisation who paid him a courtesy visit at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
He thanked the group for their sacrifices as he sympathised with them for losing their friends in a bid to support him without any financial benefit.
The Buhari Media Organisation was the media outfit of the APC campaign team in 2015 which was named Buhari Media Support Organisation.
He said “I don’t think I can thank you enough for your steadfastness under very difficult circumstances. It is not easy to defend this administration and more in particular to defend me. But your consistency has given me a lot of confidence.
“And I know you are doing it as a sacrifice both physical, mental and material. Because as I keep on saying the opposition now are sitting on incredible resources which I am afraid we might not match it at all.
“For that reason the opposition is sponsoring mischief from different angles which in spite of the incumbency of government we cannot absolutely stop.
“It is you that are fighting it and I cannot thank you enough for that. Most of the people I jailed have given back all what they have taken before I was jailed. Most of those people that were being judged by various tribunals have given back what they have taken.
“I spent 18 months in detention and luckily they did not find anything against me and I was released. But my problem was that there was a journalist from Edo State he wrote an article against me. He wrote that my mother had to die to save me. Because I was only released when my mother died to go and burry her of course you know as a Muslim tradition you are buried where you die.
“So I can remember what most of you here sitting the sacrifices you have made in terms of materialism even losing friends to continue to support me I have been here for three years. You have proven to people that you are not here for material things, your opinion is out of sacrifice and the strength of the moral courage you have is the the strength of the physical, it is the strength of losing the friends you have.
“I am sure you are being asked this support you are busy giving Buhari what the hell do you get out of it. And that is why I commend your steadfastness and I am very grateful for it. And in this country whether people like it or not, they will remain grateful for your courage because you have the courage to do the research, take your time to reply mischivious representation and we a very grateful.” he stated
In his remark, Chairman of the Buhari Media Support Organisation, Mr Austin Braimoh said the main objective of the organization is to promote and defend the programmes of the Buhari led administration.
Braimoh, who said the group has been making credible interventions in the media to further project President Buhari, said a second term of office for President Buhari is well deserved.