Babachir Lawal has dashed the hopes of Nigerians urging Buhari to evaluate and implement the reports of the national confab organised by former President, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Mr. Babachir Lawal
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr. Babachir Lawal, has reiterated that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is not focused on members of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
The statement made during an interview by Vanguard has become a subject of debate by Nigerians. Lawal however didn't give further details about the action by the government which has been heavily criticized.
He went further to comment on the reports of the 2014 National Conference organised by the Goodluck Jonathan administration which Buhari has been advised to consider in the governance of Nigeria.
He stated Buhari was too busy to study the report of the National Conference, Lawal said: “The government has not taken a decision on the 2014 National Conference. I understand that some Nigerians want it implemented but the government has been too busy with key areas of governance to talk about an exercise that we thought was essentially diversionary and a sort of, maybe, a “job for the boys.”
“If you remember, it was reported that almost everybody in the committee got N7 million and we consider it essentially as job for the boys. They probably produced a document that is good and commendable but I mean, this government is too busy with very more vital areas of governance and we are not intending to spend our time reading reports.
“The exercise of governance is not about reading reports. The reports are here, so many volumes that, for example, it would take me like seven days to go through and I wonder what happens to my work while I am reading it; while the economy needs attention, unemployment is there, insecurity is there, people are blowing up pipelines and so on.”
“If you remember, it was reported that almost everybody in the committee got N7 million and we consider it essentially as job for the boys. They probably produced a document that is good and commendable but I mean, this government is too busy with very more vital areas of governance and we are not intending to spend our time reading reports.
“The exercise of governance is not about reading reports. The reports are here, so many volumes that, for example, it would take me like seven days to go through and I wonder what happens to my work while I am reading it; while the economy needs attention, unemployment is there, insecurity is there, people are blowing up pipelines and so on.”
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