The President, Muhammadu Buhari explained that he is yet to appoint his ministers because his predecessor’s transition committee submitted its report on the previous administration to him late.
However, he also said he is being careful in order not to make mistakes in appointing individuals especially to key positions such as in the finance and petroleum ministries.
According to him: “I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers. But eventually we will have (them). But the main reason is that I have an interim committee which I agreed with the former President Jonathan that the ministers of the outgoing government should hand over their notes or their documents to this interim committee so that a position can be prepared for the new government to start from with clear records from ministers.
However, he also said he is being careful in order not to make mistakes in appointing individuals especially to key positions such as in the finance and petroleum ministries.
According to him: “I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers. But eventually we will have (them). But the main reason is that I have an interim committee which I agreed with the former President Jonathan that the ministers of the outgoing government should hand over their notes or their documents to this interim committee so that a position can be prepared for the new government to start from with clear records from ministers.
“But the ministers knew that they were going while the technocrats, the permanent secretaries and directors and so on, would remain. If anything goes wrong they would be invited to explain, but unfortunately the outgoing government did not cooperate.
“So, what the committee did was to divide itself into about five sub-committees and got a resource person that was willing to come and bring the document, and so they prepared and I got the report I think three days ago.
President Muhammadu Buhari explained that he is waiting for this report because he would like to know the position of things in the government especially in terms of finance and petroleum industry. So, Nigerians should be patient.
He also said he wants to avoid a situation in which he appoints a minister today and sack him the next week because this report would give me what actually happened in terms of security, and economy of the country.
Buhari added that he, Jonathan and former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, had agreed to let the former ministers hand over their notes to the interim committee he had formed.
He said that the planned examination of the hand-over notes had to be suspended when the outgoing ruling party accused his then incoming administration of forming a parallel government.
Buhari said he actually wanted to get a platform from the former ministers on which to start from following the problem of accountability in the administration.
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