{"id":6179,"date":"2013-02-27T04:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T04:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-says-i-dont-need-a-3rd-term\/"},"modified":"2013-03-05T06:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T06:04:21","slug":"president-kagame-says-i-dont-need-a-3rd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-says-i-dont-need-a-3rd-term\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame Says, &#8216;I dont Need a 3rd Term&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda&#8217;s President Paul Kagame has said he is not requesting for another term as President of Rwanda after 2017.}}<\/p>\n<p>He categorically cleared the air saying, &#8220;Look at me, Iam not the person who needs the third term. I don\u2019t need it. I don\u2019t need your third term.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame expounded saying,&#8221; I want to do my business for which the Rwandans entrusted me to do and when am done I will be done&#8230;I can continue to serve my country in very different ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He further said that he was thinking about the future of Rwanda not the third term.<\/p>\n<p>Refering to the recent RPF national Executive Committee meeting in which the third term issue arose and gained momentum there after, President Kagame said, &#8220;My version was clear. I said everything I had to say and I meant what I said.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He noted that if there are people who wanted me to say what they wanted to hear from me, &#8220;I tell people what I want them to hear from me not vice versa. There shouldn\u2019t be different versions to what I said in that meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In that meeting i raised three issues; <\/p>\n<p>I raised the issue of Change and which is indeed entailed in the constitution of Rwanda. And what is expected in 2017 is change subject to term limits.<\/p>\n<p>I also raised the issue of Continuity: Meaning continuity of progress  Rwanda has been making. I believe the country has been making progress but you might have your own views.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly in that meeting I talked about Stability: Rwandas situation is very complex and unique. We have our history that is complicated. <\/p>\n<p>The President is currently responding to Questions raised by Journalists at the Monthly Press Briefing.<\/p>\n<p>IGIHE is currently at the press conference and details of the entire interuction will be published &#8230;..<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2058 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pk-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2059 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ig.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2060 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nnpol.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2061 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/m-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda&#8217;s President Paul Kagame has said he is not requesting for another term as President of Rwanda after 2017.}} He categorically cleared the air saying, &#8220;Look at me, Iam not the person who needs the third term. I don\u2019t need it. I don\u2019t need your third term.&#8221; President Kagame expounded saying,&#8221; I want to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[510],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-bigabo-patrick"],"bylines":[{"id":510,"name":"Bigabo Patrick","slug":"bigabo-patrick","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":510,"name":"Bigabo Patrick","slug":"bigabo-patrick","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}