Amid the ripple of outrage sent through the populace by President Muhammadu Buhari’s latest appointments, which have been widely characterised as extremely lopsided, the national chairman of his party, the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyengun, has said APC would henceforth participate more actively in subsequent appointments by the president and apply the principle of party supremacy.
The APC national chairman said though the party was “marginally involved” in the president’s recent appointments, it was his prerogative to appoint his personal staff.
Buhari drew the ire of many across the country on Thursday when he released a list of six new key appointees, which was widely criticised as the accentuation of an uneven geopolitical distribution of appointments since his inauguration on May 29.
Responding to the widespread misgivings over the appointments, Odigie-Oyegun said, “It is too early and superficial to say the appointments were lopsided; it is too early. We are just a little over two months into the government. The appointments made so far are personal staff members of the president. And it is his prerogative to make those appointments.”
The APC national chairman stressed, “Even though we were marginally involved in those appointments, the party will henceforth be fully involved in the subsequent appointments; that is where the supremacy of the party will come to bear. Nigerians should exercise a little patience. There will be board appointments, ministerial positions and a lot of others positions.”
He made this known to THISDAY yesterday
