Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has approved the constitution of the inauguration committee to coordinate a smooth transition to the next administration in Delta.

The information commissioner, Charles Aniagwu, disclosed this at a news conference in Asaba on Thursday.

Mr Aniagwu said the committee’s duty was to midwife smooth transition from the Okowa-led government to Sheriff Oborevwori government on May 29.

The commissioner said the secretary to the state government, Patrick Ukah, would chair the committee, while the permanent secretary of the Government House, Eddy Ogidi-Gbegbaje, would act as secretary.

He stated that membership of the committee and sub-committees were not an automatic qualification for appointment into the next administration.

Mr Aniagwu warned against having a sense of “entitlement mentality.”

“You are very much aware that the Okowa administration is winding down, and in about a month or couple of weeks, we will be heralding a new administration,” he explained. “As it is customary, we have put up a committee to carry out a number of activities to ensure a smooth transition.”

The commissioner added, “We want to make it very clear that those appointed to the committees have only been asked to work for the purpose of seeing a smooth transition from the Okowa-led administration to the next administration. It does not mean that they are the ones that worked more than any other person. It does not also suggest that they are much more important than any other person.”

Mr Aniagwu appealed to party faithful who felt agitated for not being appointed to the committees to know that the assignment was just to midwife the smooth transition process.

“It doesn’t suggest that these persons who have been appointed have been automatically engaged by the new administration, nor does it undermine the effort of every other person who did not see their names in the different committees,” stated the commissioner.

He explained that there “are individuals who contributed very immensely to the success of the election, and I can assure you that both the outgoing and incoming administrations take very serious cognisance of those efforts, and in due course, the good Lord will instigate a process where they will be rewarded.”

(NAN)