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The Presidency is insisting that President Muhammadu Buhari never promised to do anything within his first 100 days in office.
On Tuesday, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, resteted the presidency’s position while responding to questions about reports on the criticisms that trailed the denial by both the presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the president made such promises; LEADERSHIP reports.
Shehu noted that what the presidency should be talking of in respect to President Buhari’s 100 days in office were milestones reached within the period under review, rather than achievements.
''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''.
''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''.
''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 being 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.
On Tuesday, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, resteted the presidency’s position while responding to questions about reports on the criticisms that trailed the denial by both the presidency and the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the president made such promises; LEADERSHIP reports.
Shehu noted that what the presidency should be talking of in respect to President Buhari’s 100 days in office were milestones reached within the period under review, rather than achievements.
''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''.
''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''.
''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 being 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.
