President Muhammadu Buhari says his party didn't know what they were getting into before making so much promises to Nigerians, and as such made life difficult for themselves with the high expectations from Nigerians because of the long list of promises made. He said his party identified only three major items...Security, Economy and Corruption.

Speaking on Monday when he hosted state house correspondents at the presidential villa in Abuja, Buhari said he and his cabinet members have been doing their best to deliver the change which the All Progressives Congress (APC) promised Nigerians during the electioneering campaign.

The president described his ministers as hardworking, saying they toil day and night to ensure that his administration succeeds.

“One of the men I pity is Lai Mohammed. Everyday he is on TV explaining our performance or lack of it,” he said.

“The ministers sit down day and night to work. Some of them have literarily lost weight because they were sleeping less and eating less (while working on the budget). They were working on every kobo to be spent.

“We recently just found out that we are poor because we don’t have anything to fall back to. This is the condition we found ourselves and this change mantra had to go through hell up till yesterday.

“And for you to talk to whoever came to visit us throughout that year, I wonder how each of your diaries would be, because people were expecting this change mantra in their own way.

“How do you define change? Luckily our party identified three major items, security, economy and corruption.”

The president spoke on why he reduced the number of ministries from 42 to 24. He also revealed that some of the permanent secretaries were disengaged because of lack of commitment.

Buhari added that there is a possibility of the economy recovering in the last quarter of the year.

“When we came there were 42 ministries we cut it to 24. We had to do it on our own because we found out that government could not continue with 42 ministers and the paraphernalia of office so we cut it down to 24,” he said.

“I underrated the influence of the PDP for 16 years watching from outside. The experience of the staff, their commitment and zeal is different from what it is now compared to when I was in government. Sixteen years of development in the life of a developing nation is a long time.

“Most of the permanent secretaries were sent out because it was time for some of them to go and for others for one thing or the other. Because were not part of those 16 years this is where we found ourselves and this is no joke.

“We had to cut down half the number of permanent secretaries and then do some cross postings. The permanent secretaries that were there for the past five, seven, 15 years the only thing that they know is how things were done in the previous years. Whatever we did in the campaign, in fact we were saying rubbish and that made it very difficult for us.

“Things were even more difficult during the budget which you all know about. For somebody like me, for the first time I heard what is called padding.

“I think we will recover by the fourth quarter of the year, what padding means especially for ministers who had implement what padding contains. There were very serious developments which I never knew about.”

Source: https://www.thecable.ng/feel-pity-lai-mohammed-says-buhari#.V0yHnM2DWNA.twitter

This is quite serious. Let's just hope all the promises ends up not being rubbish by the end of their 4 years term.

Rubbish indeed!
Buhari is pulling some strings let's pray he pull a good one

Mayb

nonsense!!

Who is to blame now? PDP or APC?

So what should we do Wait o...i hope you are not indirectly telling us to forget all your promises This is real cluelessness

If PMB could admit that he and his party talked trash during the campaign literally lying to Nigerians just to grab power, how are we sure he's still not talking trash even now

PMB should just admit that all he wanted was to get back into Aso rock by all means

foolish people.

Whatever we did in the campaign, in fact we were saying rubbish and that made it very difficult for us.

And that is Why You are now Doing Rubbish……..

Whenever the president tries to speak ironically, whenever the president makes a poor attempt at having a sense of humour, whenever the president speaks very bluntly about issues, the pdp wailers and ipob touts latch onto it and would never let it go. the only warning I have for them is that 2023 is still quite a very long time away!

Oga oooo This is really disappointing.... Coming from baba

Everyday this man is telling the world that Nigerians (the 95%) are foolish by voting him.
U can imagine they said rubbish during campaign. Only rational thinking people can detect the rubbish someone is saying.

Hahahahaha







Definitely all APC are mad






Come to think of it this APC are not ready to fulfill the





Promise they made to NIGERIA thunder wey fire yuna




Still form hell yeye mad people.

He is just telling us so we can read thru the Lines......

translation....

" I and my fellow comrades just discovered running Government is one hell of a Gig............so my dear Nigerians y'all are practically FU..CKED"


But we already know sir...that why we the Youths are thinking bigger than Nigeria......it's our home after all......and we must make sure there is Nation for our Children in the Nearest Future........

WE NIGERIANS REFUSE TO ACCEPT DEFEAT.........WE REFUSE TO BE FU..CKED..........

Rubbish indeed!

ybalogs:
Who is to blame now?
PDP or APC?

Jonathan is to blame for APC saying rubbish during the campaigns. Anyway, I trust Buhari's zombies to come and defend him as usual!

ddippset:
Whenever the president tries to speak ironically, whenever the president makes a poor attempt at having a sense of humour, whenever the president speaks very bluntly about issues, the pdp wailers and ipob touts latch onto it and would never let it go. the only warning I have for them is that 2023 is still quite a very long time away!

YOU ARE SAYING RUBBISH

ddippset:
Whenever the president tries to speak ironically, whenever the president makes a poor attempt at having a sense of humour, whenever the president speaks very bluntly about issues, the pdp wailers and ipob touts latch onto it and would never let it go. the only warning I have for them is that 2023 is still quite a very long time away!

THRASH

gunuvi:
YOU ARE SAYING RUBBISH

I could remember one of my lecturers at the University. he had taught us a topic in engineering mathematics and the entire class couldn't comprehend at that time. he came to class the next lecture day and taught us a much easier method and we were happy and all understood. the lecturer then said - 'please ignore how I taught you the other time, I was saying RUBBISH' - of course everybody understood what he meant by saying he was saying rubbish. I know it would be difficult for you to understand my analogy but you don't have to. just go to the next beer parlour or newspaper stand and tell your friends that 'see even the president has confessed that he was saying rubbish' .

It's not your fault PMB
Some of us believed your rubbish,now we are suffering and living a rubbish life while also listening to you nag everyday

It was a calculated attempt to cajole and scam the voting masses.

As an old man so sick wicked selfish a miser Mr fantastically corrupt wat do u expect? He talks carelessly yeye govt

Just imagine

Mediocrity has never been this bad in our nation's history. We need to fret about our future. How did we get here people ? But most importantly, how do we navigate out of this quagmire?

.

Frustrated wailers hurry up and come oh?

Better jollof rice and dodo with mineral done ready for una on top this thread!

Zombies be like!

Zombie your own case is beyond human and spiritual delivarance . Even when your god admits his mistake , your zombie self still foolishly refuse to believe ur god is tired of lying and his human. Your on case is finished!

ddippset:
Whenever the president tries to speak ironically, whenever the president makes a poor attempt at having a sense of humour, whenever the president speaks very bluntly about issues, the pdp wailers and ipob touts latch onto it and would never let it go. the only warning I have for them is that 2023 is still quite a very long time away!