The Presidency on Monday blamed the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan for the delay in the formation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.
“The claims made by my dear friend here that President Muhammadu Buhari spent 166 days without forming a cabinet, that absolutely is untrue.
It took him time to form a cabinet because the outgoing administration in 2015 did not cooperate with the transition committee,” Shehu said.
“The President was given handover notes 48 hours to the handover of power and for whatever reason, the President at that time determined that…the question that president Buhari was asking, for details of this and that, amounting to running a second government in office.
And he came out to all his ministers and permanent secretaries not to cooperate with Muhammadu Buhari that this country will not have two governments running at the same.
“What this means is that President Muhammadu Buhari had wait to come into office and learn about all the inner things that they had done so that he can build on the processes. The government he inherited was horribly disjointed, it was broken,” he added.
Reacting to the development however, Phrank Shuaibu, said that Buhari is known for blaming others but himself, adding that it was laughable that a candidate who had contested the Presidency for 12 years could take over 160 days to set up a cabinet.
“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.
“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 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,” he said.
Despite been inaugurated on May 29, President Buhari did not constitute his cabinet until November 11 of the same year.
Temidayo Taiwo-Sidiq is a Journalist, Political Analyst and Satirist with major interest in Nigerian Politics, Governance and Sports.
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