Buharimeter: Assessment Of PMB's 30 Days In Office

Buharimeter, known as the public initiative of the Centre for Democracy and Development towards monitoring and holding President, Muhammadu Buhari accountable for his promises, has released its first report of the president’s first 30 days in office.

President Buhari in his first month has demonstrated some level of commitment in dealing with issues of security and corruption.

According to the report, in his first 30 days Buhari only worked towards the accomplishment of 6.8% of programmes he pledged to implement within his first 100 days in office.

With over 30 days gone, the Buharimeter report gives a scorecard for Buhari in percentage expressions.

It states that while campaign promises made by the President with a time frame of 100 days constitute 33.7 % (58) of the tracked 172 promises, the promises to be implemented in four years are 114, 66.3 % of total promises. Thus far, out of the 58 promises, four (6.8 %) have been assessed as “ongoing.”

The report reads in part: “Hence, within the first 30 days, the President has ONLY worked towards the achievement of 6.8 per cent of his 100 days covenant with Nigerians. In similar direction, actionable steps have been taken within the first 30 days towards the achievement of only 2.3 per cent (4 out of 172) of PMB campaign. This underscores the fact that no observable steps have been taken to achieve 87.7 per cent of the promises.”

The assessment then made some tips around how Buhari should begin to fulfill the promises he made to Nigerians.

The president swiftly delivers his “Marshal Plan on insurgency, terrorism, ethnic and religious violence, kidnapping and rural banditry” as he promised to do within his first 100 days in office.
Priority be given to the appointment of ministers. However, we recommend a staggered appointment that will involve the immediate nomination of officials to man critical sectors, viz finance, agriculture, power and justice.

Source: Naij