It is rather troubling to see that certain elements are still
peddling the fallacious 100 day so-called covenant
attributed to the person of our distinguished President.
Whereas all evidence overwhelmingly proves that
President Muhammadu Buhari never made such
puerile, ridiculously ambitious promise to fulfill the
impossible-in-years within weeks, certain misinformed
and misled media and persons still insist on peddling
this latest slanderous allegation against our gentle and
reasonable President.
There is no better evidence of Buhari’s position in
regards to the so-called document than his
extensive denouncement and vilification of said
document in all forms as he delivered in unscripted
answer to a related question at the Chatham house in
February of this year ahead of the Presidential elections.
Buhari called the so-called covenant document a fraud.
The President, a candidate then, went ahead to
thoroughly debunk and discredit the alleged covenant in
the most unambiguous and extensive terms.
Read and watch Buhari call 100 Days Covenant
ridiculous and a fraud at Chatham house:
“I respect the question (about high expectation in first 100
days). Quietly I was thinking about this high expectation.
Those who are following the train of our campaigns and
seeing how people are turning out, some
becoming emotional and crying, I am really getting scared.
If I get there they will expect miracles within the next few
week or months. That will be very dicey, handling that one.
And I think we have to have a deliberate campaign to
tamper high expectations with some reasonableness…on
the part of those expecting miracles to happen.”
“Just to go first to the ‘first 100 days’, some of it is
fraudulent and I don’t want to participate in any fraud in
any form. Nigerians know that we are in trouble as a
people and as a country.”
When we get there we will quickly get correct intelligence of
what is on the ground and inform Nigerians and just in line
with what I have just read. We will make sure that the
misappropriation and application of public resources will
not be allowed. You would be surprised by how much
savings we will realize. That saving will be ploughed back
into development and this is what I can promise. But I
would remove that ‘100 days’ mischief/mystery that some
politicians have created.”
Buhari in his unsurpassed honesty admitted that some
politicians were pushing the fraud which he denounced
and condemned as a fraud.
It is therefore not surprising that no mainstream media
house published this fallacious, juvenile and rather
dangerous document before the elections scheduled
initially for February 14th. While the said document had
been in circulation on social media and informal
media since January . This goes to prove that no official
media representative of the APC party or Buhari
campaign committee distributed the article.
We challenge those claiming the said document was
authorized by the APC party or person of the President
to substantiate their allegations with evidence of their
publication of said critical media document. Why, we
ask, did they not publish it? Was this an attempt to
diminish the Buhari campaign if they believed the
document was authentic? The only logical and
plausible reason why no mainstream media published
the said document before Buhari’s public rejection of it
at the Chatham house was because they did not receive
it from Buhari or official APC publicity arms.
Attempting to validate the document, certain media
pointed to a Vanguard mischievous publication of said
covenant on March 17th, two months after it had
beeen in circulation and only after Buhari had clearly
and in no ambiguous terms denied the covenant as a
fraud at the Chatham house.
We have dealt with just too many of these slanderous
and libelous campaigns from Jonathanians. Over the
years we have painstakingly cleaned up malicious
billions of dollars financed attempts to tarnish President
Buhari’s image. A purposeful malicious and demonic
mispresentation of his statement that the declaration of
a state of emergency by Jonathan and Ihejirika was not
intended to defeat Boko Haram but was their ploy to
attack and cripple the north (economy wise) was
converted in misleading media captions to “Buhari
Says, An Attack on Boko Haram is an Attack on The
North.” With no evidence of such statement in any of
the media stories. We cleaned that up . Buhari also
rejected that alleged statement at the Chatham house
when asked.
We also cleared up an accusation that Buhari
threatened to make Nigeria ungovernable. We proved
that PDP stalwart Lawal Kaita was the northerner who
made the statement in reference to PDP internal
politics. We also informed many who did not know, that
due to these malicious libel attacks, Buhari took
Jonathan’s spokesman, Reuben Abati and the Guardian
paper to court over the “ungovernable” slander
statements and won over them. We pointed out that
then president Jonathan had to beg Buhari to settle with
his men out of court and that Reuben and the Guardian
were compelled to publish an unreserved apology to the
person of Muhammadu Buhari for these well sponsored
and orchestrated malicious slander campaigns that
have left much irreparable damage to his reputation.
We strongly implore the media and social active persons
to turn off campaign mode. It is time for progress and
responsibility. While we acknowledge that the so-called
100 days covenant was evidently spun by members of
the APC, there is however no iota of evidence Buhari or
the official media arm of the party ever approved the
message. We challenge anyone to prove that Buhari
approved the message.
We realize that unfortunately some Nigerians were
misled into believing it. Some even made elaborate fact-
check websites to rate Buhari based on these assumed
campaign promises. We understand that rather
fortunately, in our view, some Nigerians voted for
Buhari based on it. Thank God for that. By any means
necessary Nigeria had to be freed from the reign of
terror, theft and tyranny.
However with Buhari clearly distancing himself from the
fraudulent document as soon as it was circulated, we
must refrain from further insulting his intelligence as a
well weathered president who knows better than to
make juvenile promises. It took ENDS analysts barely a
minute to determine the covenant as fake. Immediately
we read the childish promises, eg- to provide food for
pupils within 100 days; which involves budgeting, getting
caterers, food quality establishment and unspecified
logistics, we knew it was a hoax. We immediately
searched the APC website and saw no evidence of it.
We checked SaharaReporters, it was not there. We
checked PremiumTimes, Vanguard, Punch, etc and saw
it was no where. Immediately we concluded with 100%
confidence that is was a sweet and ambitious campaign
material made (with chunks of truth) from actual non
time limited campaign manifesto promises, by zealous
APC young politicians who had never been in positions
of authority.
On behalf of Buhari, we apologize for your confusion;
Buhari did not author or approve it. The one promise
Buhari clearly made was to rescue Nigeria from the
plague of misappropriation of funds to the betterment of
Nigeria. And on this promise he is delivering beyond
measure.
Source : News Rescue.
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