by James Sambo
President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, has lamented the lack of cooperation his transition committee got from that of President Jonathan’s.
Buhari said despite his best of intentions, the Jonathan-led administration misunderstood the activities of the Joda-led transition committee.
He bemoaned the fact that the outgoing administration refused to provide the committee the information it needed to carry out its duty.
The President-elect spoke on Thursday while receiving the interim report of the All Progressives Congress Transition Committee, at the Defence House, Abuja.
“It is not that we are preparing for indictment. We are trying to get a starting point, where exactly are we going to start from.
“We have seen the debt profile now and the performance of the economy. The question is what we can do about it, especially the urgent ones like social security and lack of fuel in the country and fraud. The list is endless.
“I thank you (committee) for what you have done and I hope that the subsequent submission by the government will make your job easier and more efficient and tell us where to begin from.
“What we expected was for the outgoing government to make a presentation to this committee and for this committee to study the document and make submission to the incoming government.
“For your simple mindedness, you went to work. But unfortunately, this committee is accused of being a Federal Government. From then on, this committee was constrained to take this initiative and breaking into various sub-committees and assigned various tasks to study the most important issues nationwide and see what they can put on record.”
