The Presidency has risen in defense of President Muhammadu Buhari, saying he has achieved a lot in the area of fighting corruption in the seven months of his administration.
The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, said this in a statement on Wednesday.
Shehu was reacting to a recent report by the Centre for Democracy and Development which claimed that Buhari had only achieved one out of his 222 tracked electoral 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.
But the presidential spokesman said it was mischievous to attribute to the President promises he did not make during the campaigns and hold him accountable.
While advising leaders of the CDD to rise above what he called petty partisanship and stop misleading Nigerians, Shehu said any unbiased person would recognise the achievement so far made by Buhari in curbing corruption.
According to him, no sincere Nigerian will fail to recognise the courage of the President to tackle corruption in a country where impunity was once celebrated.
The presidential spokesman added that within seven months, Buhari had successfully blocked the leakages in the system.
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