ABUJA – An early minute brow between President-Elect,
General Muhammadu Buhari and governors elected on the
platform on the All Progressives Congress may be in the
offing as Buhari has asked the governors to steer clear of
his ministerial list.
Vanguard gathered that Buhari is contemplating a system
operated in the second republic during the era of National
Party of Nigeria, NPN, where appointment of ministers was
done by the national secretariat of the party and not by the
governors.
A source at the National Headquarters of the APC yesterday
said that Buhari had directed the leadership of the party to
pass the message of non interference to the governors.
According to the source, Buhari could not find any
justification for the state governors to choose Ministers for
him after they had chosen their own commissioners without
unnecessary interferences from the federal government.
Vanguard learnt that there had been a list of Ministers
submitted by the governors which was rejected.
The source also hinted that the president-elect was not
happy with the governors on their inability to pay workers’
salaries after collecting their states allocation from the
federal government.
It will be recalled that APC governors had recently met with
Buhari in Abuja where they requested his intervention to pay
salaries of workers, noting the dwindling state of the
economy.
But Buhari reportedly asked them to pay salaries having
collected their allocation.
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