Adesina Insists Buhari Has Fulfilled Campaign Promises
Femi Adesina[/caption]
Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, has reiterated that his principal has fulfilled all his campaign promises.
Adesina, in a chat with SUN, said President Muhammadu Buhari and the All progressive Congress, APC, made three promises during the campaign and has since fulfilled them.
According to Adesina, the campaign was to secure the country, fight corruption and restore the economy.
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He said: “If you are going to assess a government –or do any king of assessment at all –you often need to benchmark it against promises made. So, it is a good time to ask ourselves: what were the promises made? And how far have those promises being fulfilled? We cannot come with a definitive assessment of the government yet, because it is a four-year mandate.
“So, we can’t come with an assessment that is final. No! So, we ask ourselves: what are the promises the APC and President Muhammadu Buhari made before they came into power? Of course, they were three. The campaign was on three major planks: secure the country, fight corruption and restore the economy.
“And two years down the line, I can confidently say that those promises are being fulfilled. The level of fulfillment will differ from one area to the other, but, definitely, they are promises being fulfilled. In the area of security, we know that one major aspect of security in this country is the war against insurgency.
“There are others like the Fulani herdsmen issue, kidnappings, armed robbery, and all that. We knew where the Boko Haram insurgency was when this administration came in 2015. Boko Haram was running riot round the country. The insurgency started in 2009 from the north-east; it crept into the north-west, north-central, Abuja and Kogi.
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From Kogi, it could have gone to south-west; and, from south-west, it could have gone to south-south. So, what else should be left of the country? That was the position as at 2015 May.”
Despite scoring high in the fight against corruption, President Buhari has been widely criticised for not being able to restore the Nigerian economy and secure the country from the incessant attacks by herdsmen.
Africa’s largest economy plunged into recession less than two years after the APC administration came into power, inflation rose to its highest in more than a decade and businesses passed through difficult times, leading to loss of jobs.
