President Muhammadu Buhari would not short-change any part of the country in spite of the voting pattern in the March 28 presidential election, the Presidency says.

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, said this in an interview with Punch Newspapers.

Adesina was reacting to the statement made by President Buhari in the United States, where he said that no part of the country would be denied of the dividends of democracy.

The Presidency said the people who released the recording deliberately refused to include the President’s concluding statement on the issue.

The presidential spokesman said, “People should just have been patient to listen to the entire trend. The President said it truly that people who gave him 95 per cent may get more attention in terms of reward and all that.

“But he also said that fortunately, the constitution has guaranteed the rights of every part of the country. What that means then is that even those who voted five per cent will get their dues and will not get things commensurate with five per cent votes.

“Some people deliberately decided to take part of what he said and refused to balance it. The balanced perspective of what the President said is that it is natural politically to give more to those who supported him but then those who did not support him will not be given the shorter end of the stick because the constitution already protected them.”