Presidency Says Jonathan Is To Blame For Delayed Ministerial List

The Presidency has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is yet to appoint ministers into his cabinet because he did not receive handover notes from former President Goodluck Jonathan on time.

This was disclosed on Saturday, June 13, 2015, by Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media, Garba Shehu during an interview with Sahara TV.

Shehu also urged citizens to be patient with the President and stop comparing his government to states who have already chosen commissioners.

“The President did say he would hit the ground running, but he has not been given the chance to hit the ground running because the administration that he succeeded — the Jonathan administration — did not 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,” Shehu said.

“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),” he added.

“To be fair to him, he would have hit the ground running if the previous government had handed over the notes early. However, 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 said.

Buhari is expected to present his ministerial list to the National Assembly next week.

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Posted: at 14-06-2015 06:53 AM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

OK

Posted: at 14-06-2015 11:19 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

Excuses, excuses, excuses!

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Posted: at 14-06-2015 12:38 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

wasted generation

Posted: at 14-06-2015 01:25 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

What does Nigeria really want self? If Buhari appointed people that will do nothing, they will complain. I think what Nigerian need is those that will be effective to give us the change we voted for.
Lets be patient to give room for proper planning that will run with speed of change

Posted: at 14-06-2015 02:54 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

ooooooooh

Posted: at 14-06-2015 03:41 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Nonsense. Stop giving silly excuses for what your failure.

Posted: at 14-06-2015 09:15 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie

shehu, Nigerians are not 'nama'. if u can't rule tell us.

Posted: at 15-06-2015 07:33 AM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

Mr. wasted generation, is your generation also wasted?

Posted: at 15-06-2015 01:12 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie

Useless monkeys

Posted: at 15-06-2015 04:26 PM (8 years ago) | Hero