President Muhammadu Buhari has opened up on how ministers who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan refused to cooperate with him in the era of transition.
According to THE NATION, Buhari disclosed this during an interview with select journalists at the presidential villa in Abuja.
The president reportedly said his predecessor was willing to cooperate with him, but his ministers advised him otherwise.
“After the election, I went to thank Jonathan for what he did by conceding defeat. A former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), told me he had experience in handover and asked if he should advise me. I said, yes,” he said.
“He said committees in the ministries met and wrote handover notes and Obasanjo set up transition committees to work with each ministry and at the end Obasanjo took whatever he wanted from the reports. I agreed. Jonathan agreed.
“When I came to sit down, Jonathan’s ministers complained, saying ‘why would Jonathan allow Buhari to take over government before he is sworn in?’. They refused to cooperate. So I took over without knowing what Jonathan’s government contained.
“After we were sworn in, I began to debrief the permanent secretaries, taking two ministries per day, to just try and find out what they had. They had 42 ministers; the economy had collapsed. We reduced 42 ministries to 24 and we had to ask some permanent secretaries to go on several grounds.”
The president described the sovereign national conference organised by the previous government as a misplacement of priority, saying he has not “bothered” to look at the recommendations of the conference.
Buhari said about N9billion was wasted on the conference, while universities in the country were under lock and keys as a result of the inability of government to meet the demand of lecturers.
“I advised against the issue of national conference. You would recall that ASUU was on strike then for almost nine months. The teachers in the tertiary institutions were on strike for more than a year, yet that government had about N9 billion to organise that meeting (National Conference) and some (members) were complaining that they hadn’t even been paid,” he said.
“I never liked the priority of that government on that particular issue, because it meant is that the discussions on what the national assembly ought to do was more important than keeping our children in schools. That is why I haven’t even bothered to read it or asked for a briefing on it and I want it to go into the so-called archives.
On the resurgence of militancy and the agitation for Biafra, he said: “I have told the military and law enforcement agencies that the promise this government made was that this country has to be secured before it can be effectively managed. So, we can’t wait for that report before the military re-organises itself and secures the Niger Delta area. So, I think very soon they would do some serious operations there.
“As for Biafra, those looking for Biafra have a tough job. A lot of them that have participated in the demonstrations (recently) were not born and didn’t know what people like us went through (fighting Biafra) by walking from the northern border to initially Abakaliki, then came back and started from Awka to Abagana and to Onitsha. We lost our friends, our relatives and about two million Nigerians were killed. They thought it was a joke. So I think they have a problem.”


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President Buhari should stop complaining and focus on governance!!

Bush left America in a big mess, yet Obama never wasted his time in office going after bush nor complaining, rather he settled down and identify with the problems facing America and way to go about solving them.

GEJ is corrupt, no doubt and he allow corrupt practice to succeed under his watch; but for how long are we gonna continue singing the hymn??

Buhari should prove competent to govern or swerve and make space for those ready to take the risk and brace the task.

proIgbo:
President Buhari should stop complaining and focus on governance!!

Bush left America in a big mess, yet Obama never wasted his time in office going after bush nor complaining, rather he settled down and identify with the problems facing America and way to go about solving them.

GEJ is corrupt, no doubt and he allow corrupt practice to succeed under his watch; but for how long are we gonna continue singing the hymn??

Buhari should prove competent to govern or swerve and make space for those ready to take the risk and brace the task.

CC: lalasticlala Mynd44 Seun let Nlanders read what that president have to say.

proIgbo:
President Buhari should stop complaining and focus on governance!!

Bush left America in a big mess, yet Obama never wasted his time in office going after bush nor complaining, rather he settled down and identify with the problems facing America and way to go about solving them.

GEJ is corrupt, no doubt and he allow corrupt practice to succeed under his watch; but for how long are we gonna continue singing the hymn??

Buhari should prove competent to govern or swerve and make space for those ready to take the risk and brace the task.

You are allowed to say rubbish cos you are ignorant and proigbo!!!

OK na.

Enough of these silly excuses!! Its one year already!! How long shall we continue like this? Before PDP's 16 years we had 16 years of military rule where military rulers including Buhari raped our finances but PDP was never complaining about this on daily basis!! These fool should quit giving excuses and go to work

proIgbo:
President Muhammadu Buhari has opened up on how ministers who served under former President Goodluck Jonathan refused to cooperate with him in the era of transition.
According to THE NATION, Buhari disclosed this during an interview with select journalists at the presidential villa in Abuja.
The president reportedly said his predecessor was willing to cooperate with him, but his ministers advised him otherwise.
“After the election, I went to thank Jonathan for what he did by conceding defeat. A former head of state, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), told me he had experience in handover and asked if he should advise me. I said, yes,” he said.
“He said committees in the ministries met and wrote handover notes and Obasanjo set up transition committees to work with each ministry and at the end Obasanjo took whatever he wanted from the reports. I agreed. Jonathan agreed.
“When I came to sit down, Jonathan’s ministers complained, saying ‘why would Jonathan allow Buhari to take over government before he is sworn in?’. They refused to cooperate. So I took over without knowing what Jonathan’s government contained.
“After we were sworn in, I began to debrief the permanent secretaries, taking two ministries per day, to just try and find out what they had. They had 42 ministers; the economy had collapsed. We reduced 42 ministries to 24 and we had to ask some permanent secretaries to go on several grounds.”
The president described the sovereign national conference organised by the previous government as a misplacement of priority, saying he has not “bothered” to look at the recommendations of the conference.
Buhari said about N9billion was wasted on the conference, while universities in the country were under lock and keys as a result of the inability of government to meet the demand of lecturers.
“I advised against the issue of national conference. You would recall that ASUU was on strike then for almost nine months. The teachers in the tertiary institutions were on strike for more than a year, yet that government had about N9 billion to organise that meeting (National Conference) and some (members) were complaining that they hadn’t even been paid,” he said.
“I never liked the priority of that government on that particular issue, because it meant is that the discussions on what the national assembly ought to do was more important than keeping our children in schools. That is why I haven’t even bothered to read it or asked for a briefing on it and I want it to go into the so-called archives.
On the resurgence of militancy and the agitation for Biafra, he said: “I have told the military and law enforcement agencies that the promise this government made was that this country has to be secured before it can be effectively managed. So, we can’t wait for that report before the military re-organises itself and secures the Niger Delta area. So, I think very soon they would do some serious operations there.
“As for Biafra, those looking for Biafra have a tough job. A lot of them that have participated in the demonstrations (recently) were not born and didn’t know what people like us went through (fighting Biafra) by walking from the northern border to initially Abakaliki, then came back and started from Awka to Abagana and to Onitsha. We lost our friends, our relatives and about two million Nigerians were killed. They thought it was a joke. So I think they have a problem.”


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What a disaster.

So Mr Buhari, sorry, President Buhari comes out publicly to denounce the confab report as a waste of resources, and then later admits that he has not READ the confab report. .

Simply Amazing.

This man is a disgrace. Anybody who voted for this dummy should be terribly ashamed of himself

plaetton:


What a disaster.

So Mr Buhari, sorry, President Buhari comes out publicly to denounce the confab report as a waste of resources, and then later admits that he has not READ the confab report. .

Simply Amazing.

That shows you how irrational the man really is. I wonder why any sensible human being will look at this man and say he's smart and has integrity. That integrity part really annoys me. I hate to see evil men called good men.

poshstore:
You are allowed to say rubbish cos you are ignorant and proigbo!!!

I don't understand. How is his statement rubbish?

Reyginus:
That shows you how irrational the man really is. I wonder why any sensible human being will look at this man and say he's smart and has integrity. That integrity part really annoys me. I hate to see evil men called good men.

Just imagine the irrationality, the unbridled arrogance and hubris.

I am sorry for those who think this man will make Nigeria a better place.

And even more sorry for myself that he is taking all of us down with him.

And Jonathan Ministers prevented pho from naming your cabinet till after six .months of your administration baa!

plaetton:


Just imagine the irrationality, the unbridled arrogance and hubris.

I am sorry for those who think this man will make Nigeria a better place.

And even more sorry for myself that he is taking all of us down with him.

Honestly, I want him to succeed. But the truth is, he's too intellectually incapacitated to be in such demanding position.

How can anyone say that something is a waste of money when he's yet to know what the thing is all about?

People erroneously confuse this for honesty not knowing it's simply arrogant ignorance.