The meeting of the Edo State Joint Transition Committee was stalled on Tuesday, following disagreements on some documents necessary for the sitting.
The joint committee consists of members of the outgoing administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki and that of Governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo.
At the opening session last week, the Secretary to the State Government, Joseph Eboigbe, during a PowerPoint presentation, praised Obaseki for keeping clean financial records.
He promised to make available soft and hard copies of all records to the Dr Pius Odubu-led transition committee.
However, at Tuesday’s sitting only a few staff of the government committee were seen while the APC members were absent.
The Secretary of the APC transition committee, Patrick Ikhariale, when contacted, said members had made it clear to the committee to avail them advance copies of documents 24 hours before any meeting.
He added that the documents the Obaseki team made available did not meet their demands.
The truth remains that we have had a series of communications, both oral and written. Some of them are not well documented.
“No meeting could have been proposed for today because, in our letters to them, we insisted that they must send us advance copies of whatever we want to do 24 hours before the meeting.
“We told them that all the documents they have supplied so far do not meet our expectations. We asked specific questions or required certain documents that were to give us enough understanding of certain things.
“It was like they were going to change their approach. It is obvious that whatever they brought to us would have been written well ahead of the transition committee,” he said.
