- Last Updated on 08 May 2015
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The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday threw a cheap shot at Professor Rufai Alkali, Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Political Affairs, for not knowing the difference between a transition committee and an inauguration committee.
The party also urged President Goodluck Jonathan to call his aides to order and stop them from overheating the polity with their incautious statements, especially relating to the transition of power.
APC made the issued the warning in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday.
In the statement, Mohammed said the fact that PDP may be deeply traumatized by its loss in the last general elections should not be a reason for it to disrupt the nation’s peace by displaying crab mentality.
He described as provocative and ill-intentioned the statement credited to the Special Adviser to the President on Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Alkali, that the APC should talk less and plan more for the nation, and that the party (APC) is seeking to stampede the President out of office.
Mohammed said: “Prof. Alkali doesn’t know what he is saying. How does he expect us to plan when the PDP-led FG has bluntly refused to cooperate with us in ensuring a successful transition?” Mohammed said.
“As we write, the Transition Committee of the FG has yet to hold a single meeting with our own Transition Committee, neither have they given us a line of handover note.
“As a matter of fact, the Jonathan administration has said the handover notes will not be ready until the third week of May, meaning just a week before the handover. What time then do we have to scrutinize the handover notes?
“How can we plan when we don’t even know which projects they have, which ones they have completed and which ones are outstanding? How can we plan when we don’t even know how many barrels of oil are sold per day?”
He added that the fact that Alkali does not know the difference between Inauguration Committee and Transition Committee is a reflection of mediocrity that permeates the Jonathan administration and led to its downfall.
He said while their Inauguration Committee has been meeting with APC’s, their Transitional Committee has yet to even meet with PDP’s.
“How then can Prof. Alkali justify his statement that the Jonathan administration has been in a ‘transition mode’?” Mohammed queried.
“Is it part of their transition mode that President Jonathan has been engaged in a rash of feverish last-minute appointments that, though may not have breached any known law, are patently in bad faith, morally repugnant and indecorous.
“They say they are in office until May 29th, but pray, are appointments the only function of a government? Are there no problems crying for attention, such as the intractable fuel scarcity, the worsening power situation, the grounded economy and the missing Chibok girls?”
He further questioned if it was part of their transition mode that Jonathan’s Minister of Power has virtually been reading the riot act to the incoming government, condescendingly warning it not to even consider reversing the power sector privatization because its gains are ‘very obvious’.
“Do they understand the implication of their gratuitous and unsolicited advice? If their power sector reforms have been so successful, would Nigeria’s power situation have hit perhaps its lowest point in a long long time as we have it now?” Mohammed said.
He maintained that in as much as the Jonathan administration is bent on provoking the incoming administration, creating confusion and even sabotaging the transition, APC has decided not to fall for their antics in the interest of peace.
Mohammed reiterated APC’s earlier advice to the PDP to shake off the trauma of defeat and gear up for the challenging task of being in opposition.
He urged the outgoing administration to realise that being in opposition is not a walk in the park but like running a marathon in the desert where there are no oases or shades.
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