Anybody can produce a billboard and display. We know nothing about it.”
With those words, the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed on Tuesday disowned a billboard in the social media purporting to prove that the governing party authorized two documents in which the then Presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari allegedly promised to achieve certain milestones in his first 100 days in office.
President Buhari’s spokespersons, Femi Adesina and Garba Shehu, as well as Alhaji Mohammed, have separately disowned the documents.The billboard, which bears large portraits of the then candidate Buhari and his running mate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, and three bold faces of pupils in school uniforms, has a banner that reads in capital letters: “ONE MEAL A DAY.”
The provision of one meal daily to pupils in public schools is one of the 100-day campaign promises of the documents, entitled: “My Covenant With Nigerians” and “One Hundred Things Buhari Will Do In 100 Days.”Speaking with Daily Times on Monday night, however, Alhaji Mohammed said that the billboard could have emanated from any source.He maintained that his party did not authorize both the document and the billboard.The spot where the billboard was displayed during the campaign was not clear at press time.
Mohammed said: “The President never said he would do any specific thing within the first 100 days. Anybody can say whatever they like, we remain focused.” The spokesman of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olisa Metuh, told Daily Times that his party wished to leave reaction to the development to Nigerians. He said: “We believe that the APC made those promises when they are now denying. Let the Nigerian people be the judge.”.