Ministerial Appointments: No Going Back On September 30 – Presidency

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

Source: Vanguard