Over four years after presenting their book “The Fight and Strides of Muhammadu Buhari Against Corruption,” the book’s authors, Tony Osauzo and Nowinta Igbotako, called on the President on Tuesday to live up to his reputation as a man of integrity and redeem the pledge he made during the book’s public presentation on February 12, 2019 at the Bolingo Hotel and Tower in Abuja.
According to the writers, at the ceremony, which was presided over by a former Minister of State for Works, Chris Ogiewonyi, Buhari was represented by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina.
In a statement signed by Osauzo and Igbotako, they said Adesina pledged the President’s financial support for the book in view of the honour done to the President by the authors and pledged in addition that his office as Special Adviser, would also give financial support for the book project.
“One year after the book presentation, we didn’t get feedback from Mr Adesina. We then contacted him and he told us to write a letter of request through him to Mr President as the first one he asked us to write was no longer tenable.
“We complied and after a period of time, he informed us that President Muhammadu Buhari had given a ‘generous financial approval’ for us and we were happy and appreciated him because he (Adesina) also wrote the foreword to our book on Mr President.
“From that moment on, each time we made enquiry about payment of the money, Mr Adesina repeatedly assured us that he would get the money paid to us before the end of President Buhari’s administration.
“Subsequently, he stopped responding to our communications to him. We are therefore, appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to fulfill his pledge to us as a man known for integrity before he leaves office,” he added.