Presidency Denies 100 Days Promise By President Buhari

                               

The Presidency yesterday denies that Buhari never promised to achieve any specific thing in 100 days in office.it insisted that the document tagged ‘One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days’ and the other, ‘My Covenant With Nigerians,’ did not originate from the presidency.
Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Buhari, Shehu Garba,while responding to question accusing Buhari and APC of denying their campaign promises.he said as a Director of Media and Communication to the Buhari campaign  Organisation, he never saw and sign such a document and urge Nigerian to distance themselves from that 100 days document. he added that the Presidency prefer to talk about milestone instead of Achievement.


“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 are important for the country,” he stated.
 “The president never promised anything to anyone. It is on record that 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.
Shehu Garba quoted from the transcript of Buhari responses to question and answers at the Chatham House,

‘The second one: high expectations and what to do with the first 100 days. Yes, I respect that question because quietly I was thinking about these high expectations.‘Just to go first to the “first 100 days”, some of it is fraudulent and I don’t want to participate in any fraud in any form. Nigerians know that we are in trouble as a people and as a country. When we get there, we will quickly get correct intelligence of what is on the ground and inform Nigerians and just learn what I have just read.We will make sure that the misappropriation and misapplication of public resources will not be allowed. You would be surprised by how much savings we will realize. That saving will be ploughed back into development and this is what I can promise. But I would remove that ‘100 days.’”he states

He added that from what Buhari has said in 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.