Presidency insist Buhari never made any 100 days in office promises

Senior Special Assistant to President Buhari on Media and Publicity, Shehu
Garba, has denied claims that during the campaigns, President Buhari
made some promises which he hoped to fulfill within 100 days in office.
Garba was speaking while reacting to the controversy surrounding two
booklets titled “One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do in 100 Days” and
“My Covenant With Nigerians” which details all the promises the President
and APC vowed to fulfill within 100 days in office.
According to Garba, Buhari never made any promise to anyone
“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
then 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 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 said.
Quoting Buhari's reaction when asked a question of his alleged 100 days in
office promises at Chatham house London, Shehu stated that President
Buhari said
“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. Those who are following the trail of
our campaigns can see how people are turning out, some becoming
emotional and crying.
I am really getting scared that if I get there they will expect miracles
within the next week or months. That would be very dicey handling
that one. I think we have to have a deliberate campaign to temper
high expectations with some reasonableness on the part of those who
are expecting miracles to happen.
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 said.