ABUJA – Presidency has
assured that the September 30
promise by President
Mohammadu Buhari as deadline
for the appointment of Ministers
would be met.
The presidency spoke against the
backdrop of a growing
apprehension in the polity on the
fact that it is only 5 days to the
end of the month.
Of concern also was the current
travails of the senate president,
Dr. Bukola Saraki at the Code of
Conduct Tribunal, CCT, which
many Nigerians feared may make
the deadline not feasible.
At the moment, the senate whose
function it is to receive and
screen the Minister nominees
from the presidency is on
vacation to resume on September
29, barley a day September 30.
But in an exclusive chat with the
Senior Special Adviser to the
president on Media and Publicity,
Mr. Femi Adesina, on the issue
recently, he stated that Nigerians
needed not to worry as the
deadline given by president
Mohammadu Buhari to form his
cabinet has not yet elapsed.
He said: “Time given has not yet
elapsed and the president himself
said of by September 30, there is
no cabinet, you should come and
ask him questions. That is it.”
It will be recalled that the
president had in his visit to
Ghana on September 7 told
Journalists that he would
unfailingly constitute his cabinet
on or before the end of
September.
“After I was sworn-in, I said I will
have my cabinet in September. I
expect that Nigerians should ask
me questions after the 30th of
September if I do not do so,” he
said.
Solowizzy reporting for GLi
