The President, on Monday, November 16, explained why it took him longer than expected to constitute his cabinet.
According to President Buhari, the inadequacy of the handover notes
of the Goodluck Jonathan administration to provide the needed
information on what the new administration was inheriting contributed to
the delay.
Buhari further explained that the handover notes, which came four days to
his assumption of office, were vague and were not as helpful as they
ought to be.
Buhari spoke yesterday in Abuja at the National Democratic
Institute’s (NDI) post-elections stakeholders’ conference on Government
Transition Framework for Nigeria which had the theme: “Strengthening the Nigeria political transition frameworks for democratic consolidation”.
The president, who was represented by the Minister of Information
and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, reasoned that the failure of the last
administration to pave way for a seamless transition process showed
that it never envisaged that it would be defeated at the poll and so
failed to put any structure in place for the country’s first ever real
transition programme.
The president added: “Our experience in the last transition
process was unique, despite the fact that we have held many general
elections and transitioned from one government to another. Indeed, the
last election heralded the first real transition in the history of our
nation, being the first time that an opposition party will sweep the
ruling party out of power.
”This probably explains why the then ruling government was completely caught unawares by the outcome of the election.
“For the government led by a ruling party that had vowed to
stay in power for 60 years in the first instance, they were not prepared
for any transition that would not be from themselves to themselves. How
can they, when they felt invincible, judging by their perceived
strength and assumed popularity and the huge resources at their
disposal?
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