Ahead of May 29, 2023, handing over to a new president, the outgoing president, Muhammadu Buhari has set -up a 21-man transition committee to be headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha.
After the expiration of eight years in office, Buhari will be handing over a highly divided country to a new set of leaders, who will be expected to migrate Nigeria out of various problems the Buhari administration has pushed the nation to.
The new administration will be confronted with a worse insecurity problem, the poor state of education, economy, and agriculture, infrastructure, among others.
The new government will also face the challenge of remodelling Nigeria to be a country of equality, fairness and justice and equally works towards a federating system where the majority of the items in the exclusive list will be scaled down to the concurrent list.
The full list of the committee is bellow:
1. Secretary to the Government of the Federation – Chairman
2. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation
3. Solicitor-General of the Federation and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice
4. Permanent Secretaries of the following Ministries and Offices:
5. Defence 6.
Interior
7. Finance, Budget and National Planning
8. Foreign Affairs
9. Information and Culture
10. Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA)
11. Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs
12. Cabinet Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF)
13. General Services Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF)
14. Economic and Political Affairs Office, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF)
15. State House
16. National Security Adviser
17. Chief of Defence Staff 18. Inspector-General of Police
19. Director General, National Intelligence Agency
20. Director General, State Security Services
21. Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
