After a private meeting with President
Goodluck Jonathan, the President-elect
General Muhammadu Buhari may have
constitute its transition team which will
consist of politicians and private sector
players.
Buhari’s transition team, which is
expected to be announced soon is
expected to commence work with the
presidency after the governorship and
state assembly elections to ensure will
focus on the smooth handover from the
Jonathan
administration to his administration to
ensure continuity in governance.
Indication however emerged that the
National leader of APC, Alhaji Bola
Tinubu has drawn up the list of the
transition team. A chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), said he
was aware that Buhari wants a good mix
of politicians and private sector players
as members, and would likely review the
list of members already drawn up by
former Lagos State Governor, Senator
Bola Tinubu.
"I can tell you with certainty that the
president-elect’s transition committee
will comprise politicians and private
sector members.
"We are also aware that Tinubu has
drawn up a list on who he would like to
see on the committee, but Buhari is
likely to review the list,” he said.
The APC chieftain further disclosed that
when the APC Presidential Campaign
Organisation was set up in December,
Tinubu appointed all the directors on the
team until it was changed.
"You would recall that we had the likes
of Dele Alake, a Tinubu loyalist,
appointed as Communications Director
and what have you, but he was dropped
for Garba Shehu a few weeks later,” he
said.
On Tinubu’s expectations on the
transition committee and key ministerial
posts in Buhari’s cabinet, the source
who is of northern origin, said people
close to Buhari are aware that Tinubu
has zeroed in on who should be
appointed to the Finance, Petroleum and
Justices Ministries, among others, but
would be hugely disappointed.
"We are aware that he wants to
recommend the Deputy Managing
Director of Oando Plc, Mr. Mofe Boyo, as
Minister of Petroleum Resources; his
former Commissioner for Finance, Mr.
Wale Edu, as Minister of Finance; and
someone else for the Ministry of Justice.
"But it is not clear what the final
decision will be, as Buhari, though
reticent and tends to keep things close
to his chest, has to find the right
balance between meeting the
expectations of Tinubu, the five
governors who defected from the PDP to
APC, and members of Buhari’s team who
have been with him during his 12-year
quest for the presidency,” he revealed.
The source also confirmed that since
Buhari’s victory at the presidential
election, his residence in Abuja has been
besieged by hundreds of well wishers and
those seeking political appointments.
"They have been dropping their CVs with
him. I am sure he has probably received
over a thousand of them. But that is the
nature of Nigerian politics,” he said.
However the President elect has been
warned by close associates from the
North against yielding too much to
Tinubu’s demands, even though the
latter was the prime mover behind the
merger talks that led to the emergence of
a virile opposition in the form of APC.
Their argument is that Buhari has
already conceded the vice-presidential
slot to Tinubu, and so the former Lagos
governor should make his demands
reasonable.
It was learnt that if the realignment of
northern forces behind Buhari are not
handled with tact, cracks are likely to
emerge in the APC sooner rather than
later.
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