The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said President Muhammadu Buhari never promised to make one naira equivalent to one dollar.
Adesina said this in reaction to claims that Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress promised to make one naira equivalent to one dollar during the 2015 election campaign.
The presidential spokesperson, who appeared on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, debunked the claim saying it is fake and false.
He said, “It does not exist, it is fake, it is false, it is apocryphal, it doesn’t exist.
“I think in any nation at any given time, it is not enough to just focus on the negatives. In any country in the world, if you want to focus on the negatives, there is more than enough for you to see and talk about.
“When we went into recession the first time, we came out; we went in the second time, we came out, not much about it was heard. When you heard that our budget was about 97 per cent, not much was heard about it. All we hear from critics and some sections of the media are just negatives.
“In any country in the world, if you want to focus on the negatives, you will have more than enough to chew. Let’s realize that in Nigeria, there are positives in the economy, insecurity. In all spheres of lives, there are positives.”
