Clearing the air on the controversy why the President is yet to hit the ground running at least unveiling the ministerial nominees, a Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, called on Nigerians to give the new president time. As these were the reasons for the delay when speaking with SarahaTV. He recalled that after the 2011 elections, many South-West governors took several months to form their governments.
He said that the President did say he would hit the ground running, but he has not been given the chance to hit the ground running because:
1. Failure of the past Administration-the Jonathan administration to deliver the handover notes until two or three days to the inauguration, meaning that these handover notes were submitted at a time when everyone had been consumed by (inauguration) activities.
“Unfortunately, there was no time to look at them until after the President had been inaugurated. The President was left in the dark. He had to understand what the situation was and what was on the ground. That was why he set up a different transition committee. It was only this week that the committee, led by Dr. Ahmed Joga, scrutinised the handover notes and handed over the report to him (Buhari).
“To be fair to him, he would have hit the ground running if the previous government had handed over the notes early.
2. Failure by the past administration to corporate with the Buhari Transition committee. "The Jonathan government did not even permit any minister to interact in any way with the Buhari Transition Committee. Evidently, we had our hands tied behind our backs until we took over. Thus, there is nothing shady about it.”
Shehu explained that the ministerial appointments was yet to be made because the committee needed to conclude its findings on 800-page report which was presented to Buhari on Friday.
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