Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, in Abuja, handed the transition documents to the President-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Buhari also handed the baton of service alongside the documents at the investiture of the National Honour of Grand Commander of the Federal Republic on Tinubu and Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger on Vice President-elect Kashim Shettima at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja.
The ceremony is the first in a series of events lined up for the May 29 inauguration.
This is in line with Executive Order 14 which mandates that the transition council issues handover notes containing, amongst other things, proposed policy direction for the incoming administration.
The files which contain three key documents, comprise of briefing notes (on each of the nine priority areas covering key sectors).
A compendium (which captures the priority programmes and projects implemented by his administration) and a Policy Status update were also handed to the president-elect.
This is the first time in the history of transitions in Nigeria that the transition process has been driven under an Executive Order 14 signed by President Buhari.
The order sets the process of presidential transition on a path of a legislation, which will institutionalize it.