The Spokesman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Lai Mohammed Monday said President Buhari
never promised to do anything within his 1st 100 days in office.
He disclosed this on a Live Television Telecast on Channels Television in defense of the Buhari's led administration.
His words: “Buhari never
promised to do anything in 100 days, that’s the honest truth. You see, when you
are running a campaign, all kinds of literature will emerge from all sorts of
groups but I came here and I said there are only just two documents that you
can judge a party with. That is the constitution of the party and the manifesto
of the party. Those are the only two documents that are registered with INEC
you can go to court on or hold a party accountable for” he said.
His statement
comes a few days after presidential spokesperson, Shehu Garba released a statement
distancing President Buhari from two documents tagged “One Hundred Things
Buhari Will Do in 100 Days” and the other, “My Covenant With Nigerians.”. The
documents had a list of promises President Buhari and APC during their
campaign, vowed to fulfill within his 1st 100 days in office if elected.
The statement in
part reads “
“Both pamphlets
bore the authorized party logo but as the Director of Media and Communications
in that campaign, I did not fund or authorize any of those. I can equally bet
my last Kobo that Candidate Buhari did not see or authorize those publications.
As a consequence of these publications, expectations have been raised
unreasonably, that as President, Muhammadu Buhari will wave his hand and all
the problems that the country faces- insecurity, corruption, unemployment, poor
infrastructure would go away. But that notwithstanding, President Buhari has
given the job his best shot and the whole country is saying that we never had
it so good. He has re-instituted the values of hard work and administrative
efficiency. The President says times without number that this country needs to
fix governance and that he won’t tolerate laziness”.