President Buhari’s emissary, Senator Enang reached the PDP senators through their Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday evening.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has applauded the renewed support from Britain and Switzerland for the recovery and repatriation of public funds stolen from Nigeria.
The reading of the ministerial list came as the red chamber also dispelled rumours that it would summon and screen President Buhari following his disclosure that he would oversee the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.
Nor should the appointment of ministers. Our Creator has bequeathed to us Numbers – Nigeria is the ninth most populated country on the planet.
As bitter, though also wise, as it may sound, Nigerians say we all should unite under Buhari’s government and suggest constructive criticism, as we have no other choice.
“By a mere look at the list, one can tell that there is nothing to be excited about, especially considering the length of time it took the president to come up with it”, the party said.
“When the list was coming, we expected 36 names”. Yet, a part of me felt that it would be a fairly conventional, even predictable, cast of prospective ministers.
Five of the nominees came from the rank of former governors and they include: Fashola, Ngige, Amaechi, Fayemi and Onu.
Whatever the real, but unstated, reason for the inexcusable delay in nominating ministers, one hopes that President Buhari realizes that Nigeria is too broken, too buffeted by crises, to afford expending more than four (or six months, if we count from the moment of his election) on personnel matters. President you are welcome, but I hasten to remind you that 10 out of those 16 years belong to ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo.
Audu Ogbeh, former national chairman of the the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was named on the list, as well as all other names reported by TheCable on Wednesday.
After the ministerial list had been submitted to the Senate, disappointment reached the new level.
Many Nigerians see her arrest as part of Buhari’s clean up. There is no promise of change at all.
A few feel that it is not that Buhari is not trying to tackle terrorism, but that he does not know how.
The Senate spokesman, Senator Dino Melaye, had disclosed that the era of “bow and go” was over for nominees in the Nigerian Senate.
“When I was 25, they said I was a youth, when I was 35, they said I was still youth and now at 40 am I still a youth?”
On the argument of those crying foul over the nomination that the State Secretary of the defunct ANPP was given commissionership slot in the state, the groups described this as “not only malicious, but height of desperation by the ACN wing of APC to hoodwink the public because the said beneficiary, Sola Osotoye, has refuted the claim in a protest letter to Governor Abiola Ajimobi”.
He said before the screening of the nominees takes off, Senators would have gone through the profiles of each one of them and get familiar with their backgrounds in order for the screening to be effective.
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For a former Governor of Yobe State now Senator, Bukar Abba Ibrahim, the names forwarded by President Muhammad Buhari are the best crop of generations that perfectly understand the direction of government if change agenda of APC administration is to be implemented to its fullest.
