The All Progressive Congress, APC has said that President Muhammadu Buhari list of ministers is only known to him and that the party has never brought up the matter for discussion at any of their meetings. it assured Nigerians that the President will keep to his promise of unveiling his ministerial list by September.
APC publicity secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed who was speaking during a visit to Leadership, said
I know that there are informal meetings going on daily between the president and leaders of the party. I don’t think there is anywhere either at NEC, NWC or Caucus that anybody has discussed the issue of ministers. The president I know has kept this thing very close to his chest.
He said: “We will wait for September, and whatever else anyone has said is just innuendos. I don’t know why Nigerians are in such a hurry. If a man has a mandate for 48 months, I don’t think it is inordinate to spend four months. Who will get medal because he appointed ministers within record time? It is the quality of the ministers – when they are able to deliver – that the country judges him with.”
He stressed that the president should not be stampeded to name ministers as the citizens will hold him responsible for the quality of his ministers and not that he made it in two months.
“We have seen people that appointed ministers in the first month, what happened to them at the end of the day?”
While speaking on who and who may make the list and the yardstick with which they may be appointed, he said: “The constitution says there would be federal character in the appointment of ministers and I think the president is not going to violate the constitution.”
