BUHARIMETER: App for Tracking President Buhari's Performance.

President Mahamadu Buhari during campaign

A civic group on Monday launched an online application to track the delivery of pre-election promises made by Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari while still campaigning for his election into the office of his president.

The application named “web-app’’, was announced on Monday. It holds data on all promises made by both the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and Mr. Buhari while campaigning.

The creator of the programme said, “It is part of the digital governance revolution in Nigeria, helping the use of online tools to deepen the country’s democracy and make government accountable and transparent”.

The app was built by the Centre for Democracy and Development with support from Open Society Foundation West Africa and a leading budget data analytics, Budgit.

Buharimeter measures the implementation of Mr. President’s campaign promises and displays a visual report. It documents promises made by the incumbent government in different sectors for easy tracking.

The Director of the centre, “Idaya Hasssan” said, “Policy statements will be acquired, analysed and used as basis for gauging the performance of the government”.

The performance of the government will be measured using three related methods.

First, it will crowdsource Nigerians’ contributions to discussions, comments on policy pronouncements of the government in achieving its set targets and surveys.

Second, it will carry out policy and media monitoring exercise.

The third approach is physical checks on projects.

At its launch on Monday, 1^st June, 2015 , the website showed that no project had been “achieved”, and none declared “not achieved” either.

Following the secret declaration of the president’s assets on Sunday, the “On-going” activity bar had a slight fill of green, which attributed to the president’s secret declaration of assets which he promised to make public during his campaign, but he is yet to do so.