Nigeria, Sept. 1 -- The key promises of an election campaign are different from the priorities set and policies implemented when elected, presidential publicist, Garba Shehu, said in a statement Monday.

Mr Shehu said the priorities set by an administration are dependent on the "true state of the treasury" and the "capacity of the supporting infrastructure" needed to "deliver on the elected government's agenda."

He added that because governance is "dynamic.no government elected for two terms could possibly justify continuing only to deliver the agenda it set in the first election campaign that brought it to office some five years previously."

President Buhari first assumed office in 2015 after defeating an incumbent president, the first...