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The Presidential Transition Committee says it will ensure smooth transition of power between President-elect Muhammadu Buhari and President Goodluck Jonathan on May 29. Its Chairman and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Anyim Pius Anyim, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the committee’s inaugural meeting yesterday in Abuja.
According to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the meeting, presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo, was attended by the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Mohammed Adoke.
Others at the meeting were the Ministers of Police Affairs and Transport, Jelil Adesiyan, and Idris Umar, respectively as well as the Director-General of NAFDAC, Dr Paul Orhii.
Anyim said that the committee would collect handover briefs from the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), analyse them and prepare the President’s handover notes before May 29.
Anyim said that the committee would collect handover briefs from the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), analyse them and prepare the President’s handover notes before May 29.
“Ours is to prepare the hand over briefs, and prepare the President’s handover note. By the time we are ready, then we will interface with the president-elect’s transition committee.
“Whatever clarification they need to know from our own briefs, we will provide those clarifications and then bring them at the same page with us.”
“Whatever clarification they need to know from our own briefs, we will provide those clarifications and then bring them at the same page with us.”
Anyim said the terms of reference of the committee include “to collect from all the MDAs the handover briefs, prepare them and interface with the in-coming administration’s transition committee. We will then prepare the president’s handover note”.
He explained that the Federal Government committee is aware that the in-coming administration also has its transition committee and promised that both groups will collaborate and harmonise their positions for a smooth handover exercise.
“After we have collected our own briefs from the ministries, we will put it together and interface with the other committee so that whatever clarifications they want, we will be able to address them,” he said.
The SGF said everything about the transition committee’s mandate would be executed and completed before the inauguration of the president-elect on May 29.
Bakare denies leading screening c’ttee
Meanwhile, Serving Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has denied being appointed by the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari as head of his transition committee.
When Vanguard called Bakare on phone, he simply said “You are the one informing me, I do not know anything about it.”
Asked if he would accept the offer if he was called to head the committee, he said “you are the one informing me, don’t ask questions on the information you are giving me. Thank you.”
Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election.
Asked if he would accept the offer if he was called to head the committee, he said “you are the one informing me, don’t ask questions on the information you are giving me. Thank you.”
Bakare was Buhari’s running mate in the 2011 presidential election.
Buhari reportedly said at the weekend that only credible, patriotic and knowledgeable Nigerians would make up the transition committee, as part of the first steps to chart an entirely new path for the country
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