‘I did not ask for a third term but Rwandans want me to stay’ :President Paul Kagame

President Paul Kagame: ‘I did not ask for a third term but Rwandans want me to stay’.  “By the way, I didn’t ask for this thing,” Kagame said at the World Economic Forum in Kigali, Reuters reported.

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has said he did not seek to prolong his time in office, but decided to run for a third term because Rwandans wanted him to do so.

He was supposed to step down before the 2017 presidential election, but last December millions of Rwandans voted in favour of constitutional changes to allow the leader to extend his mandate.

The approved amendments have allowed him to run for a seven-year term in 2017 and two subsequent five-year terms in 2024 and 2029, potentially putting him in power until 2034.

Source: cctv-africa.com