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The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari never made a promise to Nigerians in 2015 that he would not seek medical treatment abroad if elected.

His Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Thursday, November 2, 2017 disclosed this while appearing as a guest on Focus Nigeria, a programme on Africa Independent Television (AIT).

The spokesman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, who appeared alongside Adesina, also said the much talked about promise the president allegedly made was false.

“I was the deputy director of the policy directorate of the campaign, I was there from the beginning to the end,” Mr. Abdullahi, a former sports minister who served under President Goodluck Jonathan, said.

“So many people came to join the group, some from even outside the country. Then one day, we were in a meeting, then one gentleman who heads one of the international NGOs in the country brought this list of 100 items that he was proposing that we should push out as the promise of Mr President to Nigerians.

“We circulated and asked everyone to study it and come back the following day so that we look at which ones we can own and which ones we need to reject.

“I remember that Number 1 on that list was to make the President say that ‘When I become President, I will not travel abroad for medical treatment’.

“And I remember we rejected that immediately, because we said we didn’t know what this man was dealing with; we didn’t know who his doctors had been, how could we say this for him?

“But you know what happened? One of us in the group just released the document.”

Adesina backed Abdullahi’s claim, confirming that the president was never aware of any such promise, let alone agree to it.

He said, “I can confirm that even the President himself, who was a candidate then, was not aware. The very week I resumed this assignment, I raised some things with the President. I said, this and this and this were promised, and the President said ‘When did I promise these things?’

“I said there is a document titled ‘100 things Buhari will do in 100 days’. He never knew about that document. He had to ask people to fetch that document for him, and it was the first time he was seeing it.

“So there were promises that people made during the campaign on his behalf.”

Adesina went further to blame the past administrations of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the poor state of healthcare in the country.

He said the situation was a major reason for the president’s medical trips abroad.

He said, “There was a time we could have afforded it, but the money was not properly spent. That’s why the President keeps lamenting that for a certain number of years consistently, oil prices stood at $100 per barrel, going as high as $120 per barrel at a time, and we were producing about 2.1 million barrels daily.

“Then when he (Buhari) came, oil prices plunged to $37 per barrel, so he called the Central Bank Governor and said, ‘Do we have savings?’ and the Governor said ‘No savings.’

“The question is, ‘What did they do with that money? Why didn’t they fix our hospitals in all those years that we had boom?’

“And you know that since 2015, things have been down and they are just looking up now. As things look up, if they ever ever get back to where we were, if we ever get back to $100 per barrel for oil under the Buhari administration, it’s doubtful.

“But if we ever get there, you can be sure that a lot will get done, because this is a prudent administration and the money of Nigerians will be used to serve Nigerians.”

The president has made two trips to London this year alone to seek treatment for an undisclosed illness.

His most notable trip gulped 103 days, a medical vacation that caused public discontent resulting in many calling for his resignation from office.

Source https://www.thetrentonline.com/buhari-apc-campaign-promises/

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so who made the promise?

Fire must thunder these people I swear

Ohhh!!!! what is all these....? how did we end up in this APC lorry.

jdluv:
so who made the promise?

na Me in conjunction with I and Myself promised the promises

when I say Thunder aaaaaaaaaah. you say fireaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Adesina backed Abdullahi’s claim, confirming that the president was never aware of any such promise, let alone agree to it.

He said, “I can confirm that even the President himself, who was a candidate then, was not aware. The very week I resumed this assignment, I raised some things with the President. I said, this and this and this were promised, and the President said ‘When did I promise these things?’

What do one expect from burukutu guzzling, gworo munching orang otang?

Lying cunning old man.

.Make my poster guy wetin be his moniker namw again? Nor see dis oo.

#BabaGoSlow #BuhariNotAware

Yes the old buhari knew but this new buhajibrin is not aware

You can't blame him, he is too old to remember. Atleast he was able to remember the indoor meeting he had with Ojukwu on Nigeria's indivisibility.

Oledia:
You can't blame him, he is too old to remember. Atleast he was able to remember the indoor meeting he had with Ojukwu on Nigeria's indivisibility.

Ojukwu traveled to Daura and spent 3 days with him just to discuss the non divisibility of this country, as at the time both did not have any political position.

Femi, don't worry. You will still be in excuses mode when Nigerians will boot you out. 2019 ain't far.....

Mynd44 Lalasticlala

When would buhari take responsibility for anything?

Na Tinubu brought this upon us.

Ill take my chances with mugabe as nigeria's president buhari is a clueless one chance keke rider cum cattle rearer

Jokers

These people lie without conscience.

Buhari wasn't aware of the promise. Something that every Nigerian knew at that time. The widely circulated document: 'things Buhari will do in 100 days’. Then where was he during the campaigns.?

Femi Adesina has sold his conscience for political lucre

Thats part of the reason, he is failing. A President that cannot keep track of his SOCIAL CONTRACT with the PEOPLE is not fit to be called PRESIDENT. Moreso when he has aides that should monitor his POLICY STATEMENT to refresh his memory. SENILITY!

Infact Buhari is not aware his was once an accidental president of Nigeria.APC thinks every Nigeria is a zombie with retrograde amnesia.
Waiting for the day these bunch of shameless liars will be booted out of our national life.Very annoying set of idiots.
As for Femi Adeshina,being in the corridor of power is just a transient thing if really you've a conscience.

Another lie Mohammed, check my signature if you want to be a millionaire before December.