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APC Says Federal Government Plans To Sabotage New Government Transition
Posted by Nicholas on Fri 01st May, 2015 - tori.ngThe APC has continued to accuse the Goodluck Jonathan administration of making plans to sabotage the May 29th handover to the president elect, Muhammadu Buhari. Although a member of the transition committee from Jonathan's camp has denied the report.
The All Progressives Congress (APC), are still insisting that President Goodluck Jonathan's administration are devising different schemes to prevent a smooth handover of power to the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari on May 29.
In a news briefing after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Suleiman, a member of Jonathan’s transition committee, had said the council feels insulted by the terms of reference of the in-coming government and warned that the President’s magnanimity should not be construed as cowardice.
In a swift response, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was becoming apparent that the Jonathan administration will not fully cooperate with the incoming government, despite its public posturing in that regard.
It also described as “an act of hostility and a patently-misplaced aggression, the unnecessary vituperation against the incoming Buhari administration by the Jonathan government, ostensibly because of the terms of reference of the Buhari transition committee but in reality part of an orchestrated plot to sabotage the transition.”
“We are sick and tired of being blackmailed by the Jonathanians. Gen. Buhari won the March 28 Presidential elections fair and square, having satisfied both constitutional and other statutory requirements.
“We have no apology for our victory, and the concession of defeat – while it may have increased the political stock of President Jonathan – has by no means diminished the historic and emphatic victory of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress.
“While the outgoing government had earlier issued a memo to all ministries, departments and agencies to make sure their handover notes are ready by April 20, the same government has now reversed itself and said the handover notes will not be ready until May 14.
“With the new date, the Buhari transition committee will have little or no time to take a thorough look at the handover notes or seek clarification on knotty issues, effectively handing it (Buhari Transition Committee) a fait accompli as far as the handover notes are concerned. This does not augur well for a smooth transition and gives the impression that the outgoing administration is trying to hide something.
“By its dilly-dallying on the date for the readiness of the handover notes from the MDAs, the administration’s posturing that it is ready to hand over has been exposed as nothing but a smokescreen,” the APC said.
In a news briefing after the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, Minister of National Planning, Abubakar Suleiman, a member of Jonathan’s transition committee, had said the council feels insulted by the terms of reference of the in-coming government and warned that the President’s magnanimity should not be construed as cowardice.
In a swift response, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said it was becoming apparent that the Jonathan administration will not fully cooperate with the incoming government, despite its public posturing in that regard.
It also described as “an act of hostility and a patently-misplaced aggression, the unnecessary vituperation against the incoming Buhari administration by the Jonathan government, ostensibly because of the terms of reference of the Buhari transition committee but in reality part of an orchestrated plot to sabotage the transition.”
“We are sick and tired of being blackmailed by the Jonathanians. Gen. Buhari won the March 28 Presidential elections fair and square, having satisfied both constitutional and other statutory requirements.
“We have no apology for our victory, and the concession of defeat – while it may have increased the political stock of President Jonathan – has by no means diminished the historic and emphatic victory of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress.
“While the outgoing government had earlier issued a memo to all ministries, departments and agencies to make sure their handover notes are ready by April 20, the same government has now reversed itself and said the handover notes will not be ready until May 14.
“With the new date, the Buhari transition committee will have little or no time to take a thorough look at the handover notes or seek clarification on knotty issues, effectively handing it (Buhari Transition Committee) a fait accompli as far as the handover notes are concerned. This does not augur well for a smooth transition and gives the impression that the outgoing administration is trying to hide something.
“By its dilly-dallying on the date for the readiness of the handover notes from the MDAs, the administration’s posturing that it is ready to hand over has been exposed as nothing but a smokescreen,” the APC said.
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