Jonathan has not given me any useful tip- Buhari
President-elect Muhammadu Buhari says the outgoing Goodluck Jonathan
government hasnt given him any advise on how to kick-start his
administration on May 29.
He made this statement on Thursday when a committee from the Centre for
Human Security of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library, presented a
five-point policy document to him at the Buhari Support Organisation
office in Abuja.
Hours before the event which held behind closed doors, the All
Progressives Congress,accused the Federal Government of not cooperating
with the transition committee set up by the President-elect.
“Buhari regretted that the outgoing government that is supposed to give
him tips on how to take off has done nothing so far,” Garba Shehu, the
Director of Media and Publicity of the All Progressives Congress
Presidential Campaign Organisation, told journalists after the
presentation by the committee.
Shehu added that the President-elect “thanked the Obasanjo initiative
for the gesture, assuring the committee that his incoming administration
will be needing advice as time goes on.”
Areas covered by committee in the document include the economy, security, power, education and infrastructure.
Earlier on Thursday , the APC described as untrue, a statement credited
to the spokesman for the Peoples Democratic Party, Oliseh Metuh, that
the Jonathan administration was cooperating with the transition
committee constituted by the President-elect.
It also described Metuh in a statement signed by its National Publicity
Secretary, Lai Mohammed, as a man with “an incurable disdain for truth.”
The PDP spokesman had in the said statement accused the APC of raising
a false alarm over happenings within the Jonathan and the Buhari
transition committees.
However, Mohammed insisted that the uncooperative attitude of the Jonathan team had continued despite its public posturing.
The APC statement Read, “We say with all sense of responsibility that
as of today, May 14, 2015, just about two weeks to the May 29 handover
date, no shred of information as to the status of governance from any
ministry, department or agency of government has been given to our
transition committee.”
“If that qualifies, in Metuh’s lexicon, as cooperation, then there is a
problem somewhere. We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to
controvert the fact that not a line of handover note has been handed
over to our transition committee.”
Vanguard
