Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday submitted an
800- page final report of its findings to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The event, which took place at the Defence House, Abuja, saw the committee
submitting the compressed report from the over 18,000 pages it received
from the Goodluck Jonathan administration to President Buhari.
Briefing State House correspondents after the submitting the report, Joda
said the committee got the cooperation of several groups to arrive at its
recommendations.
“We have concluded our assignment which was given to us on the 29th of April.
“We spent about five weeks going through memorandum, listening to
presentations from all over the country and sometimes from Nigerians
living in different parts of the world.
“And I must say that we received wonderful cooperation from everybody in
Nigeria, the business community, the professional people, the
non-governmental organisations, society people.
“Everybody contributed to the success of our work. And today, we submitted
about 800 pages of report and recommendations to the President.
“This is now his property and I think in due course he will begin to act
on them.’’
Joda denied that the submission of the report had delayed the action of
the president in administration and appointments but said that the
president had to wait for the report.
He said that it took time to sort the report out, analyse, get experts to
interview on it and make recommendations.
He also said that political appointments were at the discretion of the
president, adding that with the paper work given to him he would make up
his mind on what to do which required some time to do.
“In this country, we have never witnessed an occasion like this in which a
political party in power lost an election and a political party in
opposition won the election.
“This has never happened in this country.
“We have changed from, very politely before, from one civilian government
to another. For example from Obasanjo to Umaru Yar’Adua; we have changed
our government violently, through the military coup d’etats we have had,
which did not require this long process.
“We are now in a process of law and order and of due process and these
processes have to be followed in our country.
“And I think, it is part of the evolution of democracy; the country has to
be a little bit more patient; it cannot be with immediate effect
anymore.’’
He said that to be able to present the report on time, the committee
worked up to the last moment. (NAN)