APC insists Jonathan, PDP not cooperating with Buhari transition committee

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has insisted that the Jonathan Administration is not cooperating with the party’s Transition Committee, while describing the Peoples Democratic Party’s spokesperson, Olisah Metuh, as a man with an incurable disdain for the truth.

”We say, with all sense of responsibility, that as of today, May 14th 2015, just about two weeks to the May 29th handover date, no shred of information as to the status of governance from any Ministry, Department or Agency of government has been given to our Transition Committee,” the party said in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.

”If that qualifies, in Metuh’s lexicon, as cooperation, then there is a problem somewhere. We dare Metuh or anyone for that matter, to controvert the fact that not a line of handover note has been handed over to our Transition Committee. Until then, Metuh has egg on his face,” it said.

APC restated its earlier advice to Mr. Metuh to urgently undertake a crash course in how to be an opposition party spokesperson so he won’t talk or write himself into avoidable trouble in the days ahead.

The party admonished the PDP spokesperson to always cross-check the information available to him in order to separate rumours from facts, saying had he done that, he would not have issued the statement in which he tried to cast aspersion on the APC by accusing it of ”fabricating lies” over the issue of the Jonathan Administration’s non-cooperation with the APC’s Transition Committee.

”Metuh decided to put his foot in his mouth when he latched on to the statement made by our Transition Committee Chairman, forgetting that in making his statement, the Chairman was only acting the statesman that he is by not saying anything that will put the federal government in bad light…