Appointments: Be patient with Buhari – Joda urges Nigerians

Joda who said it took them this long to submit the report because they had to wade through 18,000 pages of handover note which only got to them on May 29th, said the President would have to go through their 800-page report and understand their recommendations.The chairman of the transition committee in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after leading other members of the committee to present their report to the President at the Defence House, Abuja, said, “Political appointments are entirely at the prerogative of the President.

“He will go through our report and understand our recommendation. I think he deserves a little bit more time.

“This is not an ordinary transfer of government from one President to the other.

“In this country, we have never witnessed this kind of transition from one political party to another; the political party in opposition won the election.

“Previous transition from one President to the other did not require long process like this . I think this is part of the evolution of democracy.

“The country has to be a little bit more patient, it cannot be with immediate effect.”

Joda said his committee spent about five weeks going through memoranda and listening to presentations from all across the country.

He said having submitted the report, it has now become the President’s property and he believed that in due course, Buhari will begin to act on it.