President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday attributed the
delay in his appointment of ministers to the late submission of
the transition committee’s report on the previous
administration to him.
Mr. Buhari made this known while speaking to journalists at
the Summit of the African Union in Johannesburg, South
Africa.
The President said he was being careful in order not to make
mistakes in appointing individuals especially to key positions
such as in the finance and petroleum ministries.
“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 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 but the
technocrats, the permanent secretaries and directors and so
on, they know they 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 get 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.
“I was waiting for this report because I would like to know
what position in the government especially in terms of finance
and petroleum industry. So, I am not in a hurry to get
ministers.
“I want to get ministers after at least I have seen the report because I don’t have
to appoint a minister today and sack him the next week because this report would
give me what actually happened in terms of security, economy of the country.
“And since I have to have ministers from politicians and technocrats, I wouldn’t
(like to) make the mistake of getting somebody, who has been involved on account
of accountability”.
Mr. Buhari added that he, Mr. Jonathan and former Head of State, Abdulsalami
Abubakar, had agreed to letting the former ministers hand over their notes to the
interim committee he had formed.
He said that the planned examination of the handover notes had to be suspended
when the outgoing ruling party accused his then incoming administration of
forming a parallel government.
Mr. 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.
The President, who recalled that during his time as minister of petroleum during
the Olusegun Obasanjo military regime, the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation had only three accounts, said that during the immediate past
administration, the NNPC and the ministry of finance did not know how many
accounts they had.
He described the development as improper.
He also said that the emergence of Bukola Saraki as Senate President divided the
All Progressives Congress in spite of the moves by the party to avert a crisis.
He said the onus was on the National Assembly to resolve the issue as it had its
own criteria for choosing its officers, which was why he did not want to interfere
in the exercise.
Mr. Buhari said the problem of Boko Haram had been internationalised and
expressed his happiness with the support coming from Nigeria’s neighbours and
the G7 in an effort to end insurgency.
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SNAIL BUHARI


ONECHANCEBABA

The President, who recalled that during his time as minister of petroleum during
the Olusegun Obasanjo military regime, the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation had only three accounts, said that during the immediate past
administration, the NNPC and the ministry of finance did not know how many
accounts they had.

Experience is the best teacher,Jonathan has no experience of what he elected for

Sai Baba...... Pls Nigerians. Who did this to us. You must be insane if u expect a 72 year forgey to do the work of a 57 year dude. Baba will do the needful when he becomes president. As for nw he is the Acting minister of tourism and foreigh and Boko Haram affairs

Excuses excuses excuses !!! Now we know who is truly clueless.