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President-elect Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday received the interim report of the transition committee set up to smoothen his transition to the presidency.

According to Shehu Garba, director of media and publicity for the Buhari media team, the president-elect thanked the committee for doing a thorough job and presenting an interim report within the time allocated to it.

“Buhari, however, expressed disappointment that ministers and other government leaders were not at hand, so far, to brief the committee but assured that since the bureaucrats who write the reports will be at hand after the departure of the politicians, whatever is there will eventually be known,” Garba said.

“He requested the Joda-led committee to be in readiness to resume work the moment the outgoing government’s handover notes are received.”

In his opening remarks before the presentation, Ahmed Joda, chairman of the committee, said its members received tremendous cooperation from members of the organised private sector (OPS), Nigeria’s international development partners, and other stakeholders from across the country.

Joda said his committee worked hard through four sub-committees to arrive at the interim report, adding that the report did not have any input from the outgoing administration. He was optimistic that the final report of the committee would include the input of the present administration, provided it was made available.

The interim report dealt with issues of good governance, namely the executive, legislature and judiciary, finance and economy as well as core sectors like agriculture, oil and gas and solid minerals.

The report also looked at infrastructure and power and national security.

Similarly, education, health and social welfare, which featured in the manifesto of the party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), were intensely studied and recommendations made.

Buhari thanked the committee for doing a thorough job and presenting an interim report within the time allocated to it.

Present at the event were John Oyegun, APC national chairman; Bisi Akande; Bola Tinubu, APC national leader; and Rotimi Amaechi, governor of Rivers.