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Keeping Our Campaign Promises Hasn’t Been Easy, Buhari Tells New Service Chiefs

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President Muhammadu Buhari, during a meeting with the newly-appointed service chiefs, has said that his administration had not found it easy keeping the campaign promises it made in 2015.

According to a statement issued on Wednesday by Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina, the President urged the service chiefs to be patriotic, saying the country was in an emergency.

The statement quoted Buhari as telling the service chiefs that the country is in a state of emergency.

Read also: APC Has Failed To Fulfill Promises – Wike

“Be patriotic, serve the country well, as your loyalty is to the country.

“You know the stage we were in 2015, you know the stage we are now, and the undertakings we made.

“We promised to secure the country, revive the economy, and fight corruption. None has been easy, but we have certainly made progress,” the statement read.

At the end of the meeting, Irabor, in an interview with State House correspondents, said Buhari told them that the expectations of Nigerians were high and they must do everything to meet them.

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