100 DAYS: BUHARI DIDN’T MAKE SPECIFIC PROMISES – PRESIDENCY

Presidency yesterday stated
that President Mohammdu
Buhari during his
campaign never made
specific promises of what
to achieve within his first
100 days in office.
It also denied circulating
documents which contained
such promises, saying that
two booklets titled “One
Hundred Things Buhari Will
Do in 100 Days” and “My
Covenant With Nigerians”
which allegedly made
rounds were not products
of the Media Department of
the All Progressives
Congress, APC.
The Presidency’s position
followed public concerns of
apparent denial of such
promises and existence of
the documents during the
campaign by appropriate
authorities.
The Senior Special
Assistant to the president
on media and publicity,
Mallam Garba Shehu who
incidentally was the
Director, Media and
Publicity Department of the
APC presidential campaign
organisation made the
disclosure in Abuja on
Tuesday.
Shehu who urged Nigerians
to ignore the claims from
certain quarters submitted
that he never signed any
such documents where the
president as a candidate
made achievable promises
within 100 days in office.
He further backed up his
claim by recalling the
lecture of given by the
president at the Chattam
House in London.
According to him, it was
more timely to talk about
milestones since the advent
of the new government
than speaking about
achievements.
“The president never
promised anything to
anyone. It is on record in
that lecture at Chatham
House they asked him a
question relating to
expectations and what he
specifically would do in
relation to certain
documents that were flying
around committing him to
this thing or that thing
within 100 days.
“In that lecture- the video
is already now viral on the
web- he (Buhari) said ‘it
contained falsehood and I
am not going to be
engaged in deceit. I will go
in there, I will see what is
there and the get the
intelligence – the
knowledge of things that
are going on- and I will
fully commit myself to
serving Nigeria'”.
“My point is that as the
director, media and
communications of that
campaign, I was
responsible for internal and
external communications
and these so p-called
documents that are been
flown around didn’t have
my signature.
“I didn’t fund them and I
didn’t authorize them.
From what President
Buhari himself had said at
Chatham House, he had no
iota or knowledge of those
documents. So, people
cannot hold him to account
on something to which he
did not commit himself”.
“We prefer to talk about
milestones instead of
achievements. Whether the
milestones represent
achievements or not, that
is left for the people to
decide. Milestones have
been achieved which is
important for the country”,
he stated.