18th
May, 2015
PRESS RELEASE:
IMPERATIVE
FOR INCOMING ADMINISTRATION:
REVIEW
TWILIGHT PROJECTS, APPOINTMENTS & SACKS
Outgoing Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, recently undertook
last-minute location and commencement of projects, sacks and appointment of
heads of government parastatals.
The
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) wishes to question the rationale for these hurried
actions. We find no justification for them since the Jonathan regime is at the
twilight of its tenure. We smell a rat. We therefore wish to alert the incoming
Buhari administration to make the revocation of these mischievous actions its
first fait accompli within seven days of its resumption.
These eleventh hour appointments and sacks are irritating
Nigerians. They bother on the theatre of the absurd. It is as if a sleeping and
clueless regime has just woken up. But the litany of corruption cases and acts
of indiscipline to which President Jonathan turned a blind eye in spite of
public outcries belies his recent attempt to act born-again.
Even the president’s explanation for sacking former
Inspector General of Police, Sulaiman Abba, which he gave two weeks after the
sack does not hold water. President Jonathan claimed that the former chief of
police was booted out of office for acts of indiscipline. Mr. President can
tell the marines.
Nigerians know better. Most of the recent sacks,
appointments, location and relocation of projects few days to the
administration’s exit were motivated by bitterness, malice as well as a deep
sense of frustration over election loss. Aso Rock is no longer working for and in
the interest of Nigerians. Our Oga on top may be suffering from suspended
shock.
If it is true that Jonathan means well, why has the
president’s transition committee failed to cooperate with that of the
President-Elect? Why is Jonathan not forthcoming in his interactions with
Buhari?
The president-elect allegedly complained yesterday that
he had learnt nothing from President Jonathan. Governance is a continuum and
Buhari is expected to continue from where Jonathan stopped. How can transition
be smooth if Jonathan fails to reveal what he has done? Is this in the interest
of our dear country? What is our president hiding? This is quite alarming.
Nigerians need to brace up because Jonathan is leading us to terra incognito.
In
conclusion, we question the moral justification for the post-election
appointments, sacks, location and relocation of projects by President Jonathan.
We demand the revocation of all such actions within the first seven days of the
resumption of the Buhari administration.
Most
importantly, we alert the international community that President Jonathan’s latest
foot-dragging antics expose him as a bad loser and reveals that his concession
of defeat was merely an outward show designed to portray him as a democracy-compliant
African leader.
Professor
Ishaq Akintola,
Director,
Muslim
Rights Concern (MURIC)
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