Wada Constitutes Transition Committee For Handing Over

Kogi State Governor, Idris Wada, has constituted a Transition and Steering Committees to ensure a smooth transition of government from the present Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the incoming All Progressives Congress (APC).

The committees, which are expected to liaise with their  counterparts from the APC, is expected to draw out programs for the incoming government.

The Governor said that the committees became necessary in order not to fail in their duties and responsibility as a government.

He, however,  read out their terms of reference which he said would guild them to work better.

The Deputy Governor, Yomi Awoniyi, while giving the vote of thanks, assured the Governor that  the committees would ensure that all the ministries and parastatals  give their assignment the appropriate attention.

Governor Wada inaugurated the committees in Lokoja, the capital of Kogi State on Saturday.

The outgoing administration will hand over power to the incoming one in the Confluence State on January 27, 2016.

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Transition Committee Lied on Report, Says Jang

Former Governor of Plateau State, Senator Jonah David Jang has described the report of the transition committee set up by the incumbent Governor of the state, Mr Simon Lalong, in which he was alleged to have left a debt of N222.3bn as untrue.

He insistied that he left debts and liabilities of N103.9b.Observing the new debt figure paraded by the committee as mischievously manufactured, a statement signed by Barrister Olivia Dazyem, former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, said the comprehensive breakdown of the debt is well documented in the handover notes and leaves no one in doubt.

He therefore urged the committee to go back and study the handover notes properly.

Describing the committee’s report as “a clear distortion and manipulation of facts, aimed at personal vendetta, witch-hunt and smearing the good name and achievements of the outgone PDP government led by Dr. Jonah David Jang”, Dazyem said “a quick look at the compositions of the committees reveals that they were deliberately selected and made up of persons that have grudges with the immediate past administration.”

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Governor That Left N222 Billion Debt, Transition Committee Reveals

The Transition Committee set up by Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau says the immediate past administration of former Governor David Jang left a debt of N222.3 billion for the Lalong administration.

Sonni Tyoden, the Plateau Deputy Governor and Chairman of the Committee, made this known on Tuesday when he submitted the report of the committee to the governor.

Mr. Tyoden explained that the committee was made up of 12 members of the central committee, 188 other members were broken into 27 sub-committees, each handling a particular aspect of government operations.

The deputy governor said that government records showed that between May 2007 and May 2015, the state received a total income of N525.35 billion.

“The sum of N747.65 billion was said to have been expended on Plateau citizens in the last eight years.

“The hand-over notes received from the previous government stated that the level of indebtedness of government was N103.9 billion as at May 2015 but our findings put the figure at N222.3 billion.

“Furthermore, what was left as credit in all the government accounts put together was N93 million,’’ he said.

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APC Insists Jonathan, PDP Not Cooperating With Buhari’s Transition Committee

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has insisted that the Jonathan Administration is not cooperating with the party’s Transition Committee, while describing the Peoples Democratic Party’s spokesperson, Olisah Metuh, as a man with an incurable disdain for the truth.

”We say, with all sense of responsibility, that as of today, May 14th 2015, just about two weeks to the May 29th handover date, no shred of information as to the status of governance from any Ministry, Department or Agency of government has been given to our Transition Committee,” the party said in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.

”If that qualifies, in Metuh’s lexicon, as cooperation, then there is a problem somewhere. We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to controvert the fact that not a line of handover note has been handed over to our Transition Committee. Until then, Metuh has egg on his face,” it said.

APC restated its earlier advice to Mr. Metuh to urgently undertake a crash course in how to be an opposition party spokesperson so he won’t talk or write himself into avoidable trouble in the days ahead.

The party admonished the PDP spokesperson to always cross-check the information available to him in order to separate rumours from facts, saying had he done that, he would not have issued the statement in which he tried to cast aspersion on the APC by accusing it of ”fabricating lies” over the issue of the Jonathan Administration’s non-cooperation with the APC’s Transition Committee.

”Metuh decided to put his foot in his mouth when he latched on to the statement made by our Transition Committee Chairman, forgetting that in making his statement, the Chairman was only acting the statesman that he is by not saying anything that will put the federal government
in bad light.

”A discerning party spokesman, rather than a rabble-rousing one, would have understood the elder statesman’s stand for what it is instead of using it as a peg to issue a needless, hollow statement that puts his party and government in bad light. We had decided to allow sleeping dogs to lie, but now that Metuh has stirred the hornet’s nest, it is time to put out the facts for Nigerians to judge.

”What happened was that, following the request by our Transition Committee to meet with them, they invited us to what was the first formal meeting between both Transition Committees. But the meeting was a mere photo-op, as it yielded nothing concrete as far as handover notes are concerned.

”In fact, what we met at the so-called meeting was far worse than what we had thought. Whereas we had hoped to get their handover notes on May 14th (the date they had indicated to us informally), they told us point blank that the notes won’t be ready until May 24th. Because this date falls on a Sunday, that means we won’t be getting the handover notes until May 25th, just four days before the May 29th handover date ”How do they honestly expect us to peruse thousands of pages of handover notes, ask pertinent questions and seek necessary clarifications within four days? Because we want a smooth transition,

we asked if we could meet with some of the ministers pending the release of the handover notes, but they said no. When one of their members even suggested that the whole process be fast-tracked, they did not budge.

”Despite this set back, we decided not to put the whole issue in the public domain, until the babbling Metuh decided to look for trouble, describing the deliberate stonewalling by the Jonathan Administration as cooperation,” it said.

APC assured Nigerians that whether or not the Jonathan Administration cooperates with it during the transition, the party will live up to expectation by providing purposeful governance.

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Buhari Inaugurates APC Transition Committee

The All Progressives Congress, APC has unveiled its transition technical committee. The president-elect, General Mohammadu Buhari inaugurated the committee in Abuja, Wednesday.

It is a 19-man committee whose responsibility is to interface with the federal government to ensure a smooth handover to the incoming government. Members of the committee include APC Chairman, Chief John Odie-Oyegun, former PDP chairman, Chief Audu Ogbeh, APC Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Muhammed among others.

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