How Jonathan Contributed To Buhari’s Delay In Forming Cabinet In 2015 – Presidency

Former President Goodluck Jonathan has been blamed for the delay in the formation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu who stated this on Monday while speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, said Jonathan did not give Buhari handover notes until 48 hours before his departure.

He said ” that President Buhari took 166 days to form his 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.

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 government would not operate at the same time.”

However, a spokesman for the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Mr Phrank Shuaibu, said Buhari had a penchant for blaming others but himself

Shuaibu said it was laughable that Buhari who had contested the Presidency for 12 years could take over 160 days to set up a cabinet.

He added that 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.