by Ranti Joseph

The All Progressives Congress (APC) are not really cool with GEJ’s aides with their incautious statements and has urged him to call them to order to stop them from overheating the polity with such statements, especially relating to the transition of power.

In a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, APC said although PDP is deeply traumatized at by its loss at the last general elections , which they attributed to being a post- election trauma, it should not be a reason for it to disrupt the nation’s peace by displaying crab mentality.

APC said the statement credited to the Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs,​ ​Rufai Alkali, about the APC seeking to stampede the President out of office and also talk less and plan more for the nation was provocative and ill-intentioned

“Prof. Alkali doesn’t know what he is saying. How does he expect us to plan when the PDP-led FG has bluntly refused to cooperate with us in ensuring a successful transition? As we write, the transition committee of the FG has yet to hold a single meeting with our own transition committee, neither have they given us a line of handover note.

“As a matter of fact, the Jonathan Administration has said the handover notes will not be ready until the third week of May, meaning just a week before the handover.

“What time then do we have to scrutinize the handover notes? How can we plan when we don’t even know which projects they have, which ones they have completed and which ones are outstanding? How can we plan when we don’t even know how many barrels of oil are sold per day?” APC said.

APC said for Alkali not to know the difference between Inauguration Committee and Transition Committee was a reflection of the mediocrity that pervades GEJ Administration and led to its downfall.

“While their Inauguration Committee has been meeting with ours, their Transitional Committee has yet to even meet with ours,” the APC said. “How then can Prof. Alkali justify his statement that the Jonathan Administration has been in a ‘transition mode’?

“Is it part of their transition mode that President Jonathan has been engaged in a rash of feverish last-minute appointments that, though may not have breached any known law, are patently in bad faith, morally repugnant and indecorous.

“They say they are in office until May 29th, but pray, are appointments the only function of a government? Are there no problems crying for attention, such as the intractable fuel scarcity, the worsening power situation, the grounded economy and the missing Chibok girls?

“Is it part of their transition mode that Jonathan’s Minister of Power has virtually been reading the riot act to the incoming government, condescendingly warning it not to even consider reversing the power sector privatization because its gains are “very obvious?”

“Do they understand the implication of their gratuitous and unsolicited advice? If their power sector reforms have been so successful, would Nigeria’s power situation have hit perhaps its lowest point in a long time as we have it now?” APC asked.

APC said even if the Jonathan Administration is bent on provoking the incoming Administration, creating confusion and even sabotaging the transition, they have decided not to fall for their antics in the interest of peace.