Jonathan Caused Delay In Buhari Forming Cabinet, Says Presidency

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The Presidency on Monday blamed former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan for current president Muhammadu Buhari’s delay in forming government cabinet.

Buhari, sworn in on May 29, 2015, took over six months after to assemble his working cabinet – November 11.

Although the president did not give reasons for the delay, over three years after, a presidential spokesman Gerba Shehu said the former government’s transition committee did not cooperate with Buhari.

“That President Buhari took 166 days to form a cabinet is absolutely untrue. It took him time to form a cabinet because the outgoing administration in 2015 did not cooperate with the transition committee,” Shehu said while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily.

Shehu alleged that Jonathan did not give Buhari handover notes until 48 hours before his departure.

According to him, “The President was given handover notes 48 hours to the handover of power and for whatever reason, the President at that time determined that two governments would not operate at the same time.”

He said Jonathan told all ministers and permanent secretaries under his government not to cooperate with Buhari and “we cannot have the two governments at the same time.”

However, on the same programme, a spokesman for the People’s Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Phrank Shuaibu, said it had become usual for Buhari to blaming others for his inability to prepare for office.

“Saying Mr President had to wait for handover notes from his predecessor before forming a cabinet is an admittance of lack of preparedness for the office of the President and the onerous responsibility of managing a country like Nigeria,” Shuaibu said.

playing the blame-game is their usual style. Talking about PDP is out of place he (Buhari) knows he’s a failure

“For an office, you sought election for four times, obviously you should be able to identify eggheads that can help you manage the country.”

He argued that if Buhari had prepared for office “he didn’t need to wait for handover notes before being able to form a cabinet. He had no working plan. He was practically what El-Rufai would refer to as an accidental public servant or an accidental President.”

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PDP Reacts At Buhari, Gerba Shehu Over Excuse On Cabinet Delay, Mocks APC


Following the accusation leveled against the former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, by the special assistant to president Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday mocked the current administration, noting that their incompetence is on play as they attempt to blame the former President for Buhari’s delay in forming his cabinet.

In a statement disclosed by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, the party opined that it is unfortunate that the Buhari Presidency will always resort to peddling falsehood as a cover for its failures.

It is a settled matter that President Buhari could not form a cabinet for over five months after his inauguration, primarily due to sheer incompetence, lack of preparedness and the fact that he was overwhelmed by the complexity of the office of the President of Nigeria.

Nigerians can also recall how President Buhari refused to hasten the formation of his cabinet following his widely condemned view, in September 2015, that ministers were mere “noise makers”.

According to President Buhari “the ministers are there, I think, to make a lot of noise”. “As for the cabinet, I said we will have one by the end of the month, and time flies. The end of the month is coming too quickly for my liking”.

The only thing left for President Buhari to do is to start preparing to accept defeat in 2019, as Nigerians are now rallying behind our candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who has the solutions and blueprint that guarantee a better future for our nation.

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