Buhari receives transition committee’s report without FG’s input

The President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday said that despite his best of intentions, the President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration misunderstood the activities of the Ahmed Joda-led transition committee.

Buhari said this while receiving an interim report of the committee at the Defence House, Abuja, on Thursday.

He expressed disappointment that the outgoing administration refused to provide the committee the information it needed to carry out its duty.

The President-elect said, “It is not that we are preparing for indictment. What we are trying to get is a starting point, where exactly are we going to start from?

“We have seen the debt profile now and the performance of the economy. The question is what can we do about it? Especially the urgent ones like social security, lack of fuel in the country and fraud. The list is endless.

“I thank you (committee) for what you have done and I hope that the subsequent submission by the government will make your job easier and more efficient and tell us where to begin from.

“What we expected was for the outgoing government to make a presentation to this committee and for this committee to study the document and make submission to the incoming government.

“For your single-mindedness, you went to work.

“But unfortunately, this committee is accused of being against the Federal Government. From then on, this committee was constrained to take this initiative and breaking into various sub-committees and assigned various task to study the most important issues nationwide and see what they can put on record.”

Buhari said he expected that each ministry would make a presentation to the Joda-led committee to make things easier for both parties.

Buhari assured the committee that he and members of his team would find time to read the interim report and when the outgoing government decided to present its own report it would be cross-checked and merged.