Solomon Dalung, a former Minister of Sports and Youth Development under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari, has admitted that the administration of the ex-president did not fulfill the promises made to Nigerians during the 2015 campaigns.
That, Dalung said, was a source of regret for Buhari after his allies “dragged his name in the mud.”
Dalung, who stated this in an interview with Trust Radio, said that as a founding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), he has responsibility to speak the truth.
“We failed to meet our expectations, and I am not hypocritical because as a major stakeholder who campaigned vigorously in 2015 and went to the nooks and crannies of the north, of all the promises we made, we fulfilled none of them.
“The political covenant we had with Nigerians while campaigning was that we were going to address the security situation; we were going to revamp the economy; and we were going to give corruption a major technical blow so that we could minimize it to the barest minimum.
“Looking back, reflecting and evaluating the situation as it is today, we failed woefully,” Dalung said.