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.

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