President’s Scorecard After 30 Days(33.7 percent (58) of the tracked 172 promises)

With over 30 days gone, the Buharimeter assessment has a scorecard for the President in percentage terms. It notes that while campaign promises made by the President with a time frame of 100 days constitute 33.7 percent (58) of the tracked 172 promises, the promises to be fulfilled in four years are 114, 66.3 percent of total promises. Thus far, out of the 58 promises, four (6.8 percent) have been assessed as “ongoing.”

“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.”However, the June report did not merely pin point the problems with respect to the President’s promises that are yet to be matched with action. It therefore made some recommendations around how the President should begin to fulfil the promises he made to the Nigerian people.Specifically, it was recommended that the President should swiftly deliver 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. The report equally called on the President to appoint ministers to handle the economy, agriculture and other relevant sectors as quickly as possible.”Beyond the content of the report, it is of importance to take a look at the methodology used in putting this very first report together. The monitoring of tracked campaign promises of PMB was conducted by the Centre for Democracy and Development. Reports of newspapers, radio and television broadcast which had bearing on aspects of the promises were generated through daily media monitoring.Also, expert analyses on sectoral issues were also collated to aid formulation of informed analyses, from problem identification to policy recommendations.“We also systematically take cognizance of citizens’ views in making judgment on the status of implementation but ensure that views that are laden with bias and sentiments are disregarded in making judgment. Weekly in-house reports were prepared for the purpose of trend monitoring and building up to the monthly report; a database was created for this,” the report read.Article by Armsfree Ajanaku, Media Manager of Transition Monitoring Group, a coalition of over 400 civil society organizations.