Bearly seven day before the official handing over from the incumbent federal government to the incoming All Progressives Congress (APC) led government, the President-elect Muhammadu Buhari, has refused to attend the Juma’at prayers slated for today according to the official program.
Though, one of the leaders of the party and tge former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, attended the special Juma’at prayers but he was not said to be representing General Buhari.
Sources close to the Mr. Buhari said that he has travelled out of the country.
Chairman of the federal government transition committee and the vice President Namadi Sambo was at the national mosque to represent the federal government.
Mr. Buhari had on Thursday complained bitterly that President Jonathan’s transition committee was not cooperating with his own committee.
Buhari said: “What we expected was for the outgoing government to make a presentation to this committee and for this committee to study the document and make submission to the incoming government.
“For your simple mindedness, you went to work. But unfortunately, this committee is accused of being a federal government. From then on, this committee was constraint to take this initiative and breaking into various subcommittees and assigned various task to study the most important issues nationwide and see what they can put on record.
“I thank you very much for this efforts which you have made and I want to assure you that we will find time to read your initial report and when the government decides to finally present to you their own records, you will study them and merge with the report of the various committees and present to the incoming government.
“My expectations was that each ministry makes their own presentations. The politicians know that they are going while the bureaucrats who does the jobs know they are staying.
“They are the ones who are going to do the job and they are going to be available to help cross check the information. I think that this research you have made will help the incoming government to cross check the information on paper given by the outgoing government”.
The chief Imam of Abuja Dr. Muhammad Kabir Adam, who coordinated the prayers did not either make any statement in his speech as regard the power transition
