SEE The 3 Things Presidency Listed As Buhari’s Achievements In Seven Months

The Centre for Democracy and Development had claimed recently that President Muhammadu Buhari had only achieved one out of his 222 tracked elector*l promises, representing 0.5 per cent of the promises. The CDD had based its report on critical sectors such as security, the economy, fighting corruption, oil and gas, agriculture, and social and environmental sectors. However, the presidency has risen to President Buhari’s defense saying  he (Buhari) has achieved a lot in the area of fighting corruption in the seven months of his administration. 247GistLand has put together the 3 points put forward by the presidency to support its claim…
– Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said in a statement on Wednesday said that the President has been able to tackle corruption in a country where impunity was once celebrated.
– The presidential spokesman said within seven months, Buhari had successfully blocked the leakages in the system.
– He added that Buhari is making good strides towards improving governance by tackling corruption. Till date, a good number of persons believed to have collectively stolen billions from taxpayers have been arrested and are facing the courts.
Speaking on the economy, he said it was wrong to blame the President for the falling oil prices in the world market because he inherrited the challenge and as part of measures to cushion the effect Buhari has laid emphasis on economic diversification. President Barack Obama of the United States had inherited an economy in crisis in 2009 and was not judged in his first seven months in office, he added.
He also noted that it was mischievous to attribute to the President promises he did not make during the campaigns and hold him accountable for them.
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APC National Chairman, Oyegun denies calling for the probe of Supreme Court Judges over their ruling on Rivers state

APC National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, has denied media reports that he called for the probe of Supreme Court judges after they ruled in favor of PDP in the Rivers state governorship election matter. The reports had alleged that he said this while speaking with some Rivers state APC members who paid him a visit at the party secretariat in Abuja on Wednesday February 3rd.
Oyegun who denied the report in a statement released by the party’s National Secretary, Mala Buni, said at no time during their discussion did he call for such probe.
He said one of his remarks was that the verdict from the Supreme Court judges was astonishing.

“The party wishes to deny this report in the strongest terms. As much as he expressed ‘total astonishment’ over the ruling of the Supreme Court, the National Chairman of the Party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, never called for the investigation of Supreme Court judges. Indeed, a copy of the statement issued following Chief Odigie-Oyegun’s meeting with the APC delegation from Rivers State was widely circulated. At no time during the meeting or in the statement referred to did the National Chairman make such a call for the probe of Supreme Court Judges. What transpired at the meeting was correctly reported in other media outlets. Given that the author of the Vanguard report was not physically at the venue of this event, but relied on this statement, it is baffling that he gave this slant to the story,” the statement read.

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