The Presidency Has Denied That President Buhari Promised To Declare His Assets If He Assumes Office

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, has said that Muhammadu Buhari never said he would make his assets public.

The Presidential spokesperson said that the issue of public asset declaration should be attributed to the All Progressives Congress, and not his principal.

According to Adesina, the President has declared his assets in compliance with the law and it can only be made public after verification is concluded by the Code of Conduct Bureau.

He said this in an interview Kayode Ogundamisi, on PolitrickswithKO.

“I believe if Nigeria does not kill corruption; corruption will kill Nigeria. I pledge to publicly declare my assets and liabilities and encourage my political appointees to also publicly declare their assets and liabilities.”

“You need to get his words right, go and check all that the president said during the campaign, in no place would you see it attributed to him as a person.”

“But then there is a document by his party, the All Progressives Congress, saying he would declare publicly, so we need to set that right, it’s a declaration by his party.

“Now what does the law require? The law requires public officers to declare their assets; he has done that. But his party has a document that says he would do it publicly.

“There is a procedure for that, and the procedure is that you first declare, code of conduct (bureau) would verify and after that, if you want to make it public, the onus lies on you to say release. The procedure has to be followed.”

“He has declared, and it is deposited with the code of conduct bureau and they need to verify. Let’s come to that time when code of conduct would say we have completed verification,” Adeshina said.