Sunday, 31 January 2016

Buhari Has Fulfiled Just One Of His 222 Campaign Promises

President Muhammadu Buhari will be spending 9 months in office come this February 29. However, the president has only been able to fulfil just one out his 222 campaign promises he made to the electorates. This was explained by a civil society monitoring report called Buharimetre that has documented the president’s performance so far.
Buharimetre stated that the APC-led federal government has done little in many areas of national development except its anti-corruption crusade. The report assessed President Buhari between May 29 and December 31 of last year.
It states that: “PMB has only achieved 1 out of the 222 tracked promises, which constitutes 0.5 percent of the promises.
“More so, it reveals that while the government is taking action to achieving only 27 (12.2 percent approximately) of the tracked promises thus ongoing, 194 electoral promises are still ‘Not Rated.’ The latter constitutes 87.3 percent of the tracked promises. The electoral promises not rated,  it says, is because there is “no tangible related activities being implemented.”
“PMB anti-corruption efforts have been commended as a step in the right direction.
“ Positive opinions in this regard are due to the possible positive impact of the efforts on development and democracy in the country.
“However, the government has been accused of politics of selection in the fight against corruption. A delay in the prosecution of the accused people has been a major criticism of the government. Moreover, while the government has shown unmatched commitment to curbing corruption, such effort should be institutionalised.”

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