Buhari, governors arousing concerns with controversial decisions few days to handing over

In Nigeria’s sixth transition to new governments at the federal and state levels under the Fourth Republic, news of outgoing executive officeholders awarding contracts, signing new laws, and making appointments in the twilight of their tenures is becoming routine.

While people perceive the development as booby traps for the incoming administrations, the president-elect and governors-elect have mostly shied away from voicing concerns, especially where their soon-to-be predecessors are of their parties or had helped them in the elections.

But it has become a subject of discussion on the social and mainstream media.

Some state governors have been awarding new contracts and making last minutes appointments, while their state Houses of Assembly have been passing new laws. Most of the affected governors perhaps took the cue from President Muhammadu Buhari in his decision to take an $800 million loan from the World Bank to hand out in paltry doles to some poor Nigerians as a…

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