ABUJA — The All Progressives Congress, APC-led Federal Government is not focused on probing members of the party, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Mr. Babachir Lawal, has said.


SGF Engr Babachir David Lawal
The SGF, in an interview, weekend, affirmed that the government would, in the light of declining revenue, reprioritise the 2016 budget with emphasis on the administration’s priority projects and would not prioritise the constituency projects inputted by the National Assembly.

Lawal, in his first major interview since assuming office last August, also gave reasons for the failure to name ambassadorial nominees in certain states just as he justified the recent recruitment into the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS and the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.

Lawal, in the interview, said the report of the 2014 National Conference organised by the Goodluck Jonathan administration was not a priority of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.

Saying Buhari was too busy to study the report of the National Conference, Lawal said: “The government has not taken a decision on the 2014 National Conference. I understand that some Nigerians want it implemented but the government has been too busy with key areas of governance to talk about an exercise that we thought was essentially diversionary and a sort of, maybe, a “job for the boys.”

“If you remember, it was reported that almost everybody in the committee got N7 million and we consider it essentially as job for the boys. They probably produced a document that is good and commendable but I mean, this government is too busy with very more vital areas of governance and we are not intending to spend our time reading reports.

“The exercise of governance is not about reading reports. The reports are here, so many volumes that, for example, it would take me like seven days to go through and I wonder what happens to my work while I am reading it; while the economy needs attention, unemployment is there, insecurity is there, people are blowing up pipelines and so on.”

ElCount:
You wonder what would happen to your work for seven days while you read the confab report? But buhari had no problem running the country without a cabinet for 5 months.
And remind us what vital areas you guys are busy with because you guys are obviously doing nothing

SeverusSnape:
"therefore, If any man (or woman) joins APC, He/she is a new creature, old things are past away; All your sins are washed away, and all things are become new" - Epistle to the zombies, Chapter 4 vs.19

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nzemila:


when FFK left Apc to join People deciving People, i guess he was a saint. this ur zombies will attack you some day.

lorbah001:



GEJ would have implemented the report?
Ur hero ineffectiveness ruined this nation

lorbah001:



GEJ would have implemented the report?
Ur hero ineffectiveness ruined this nation

1shortblackboy:
ur still calling GEJ? For how long will u people continue with this line ? 1 year don waka o we don dey enter d second year

ElCount:

Indeed GEJ would have implemented it no doubt. 7months isn't enough to implement something like a confab report especially when you take into account the election campaign and all that in the same time frame.

For ur info he is not my hero and I'm no fanatic unlike you who probably have a statue of PMB in your house

rotimileke:
I don't really care if you probe APC members or not for corruption because I know that corruption is not the number one enemy of Nigeria. We blame every of our woes on corruption and that way celebrate corruption. we have a foundational problem but we continue to adjust the roof of our collapsing structure. The very problem of Nigeria are these people who cannot decipher our problems. They are just confused. The nation is coming to an eminent end and they are too blind to see the coming reality.
If Nigeria is ever going to remain a single indivisible entity then the implementation of the recommendations of the national conference report is a must especially as regards true federalism and forms of governance. Buhari should not learn everything from experience, it will do him lot of good if he learn from the errors of others. Nigerians deserve better!

SeverusSnape:

E pain am
Go to their site and read the full interview, then you'll understand.

SeverusSnape:

Are there no corrupt people in APC??
Several petitions have been written to APC about those corrupt individuals, But as usual, They ignored it.
Besides, most APC members defected from the PDP, So for example, Someone like Amaechi actively participated in the 'looting' of the nation's treasury during his time in PDP, Audu Ogbe inclusive. By defecting to APC, they are now clean, aren't they??
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koboko69:
I have said it before. DSS needs to keep a close watch on Vanguard. The manner at which they report is to stir up anger and instigate violence. They do the same thing when reporting about militants activities.

I read this now, i can't make any meaning out of it,

No reason for not probing

They said he justified FIRS and CBN recruitment, no justifications found in the report.

Then they suddenly have reasons for confab report, which does not even tally with the title..

This is kangaroo journalism, and a junk silly piece of article

mrvitalis:

And who told u there is an input of true federalism in that report??
When people said that report is just a jamboree u think they are foolish??
Create 18 more states?? When the one we have can't pay workers
18% for the oil producing states from 13% (well that's OK but not still our problem)
There is almost nothing in that report that will change the Nigerian situation now...
And remember it was supposed to be used as a reference point to constitutional amendment and the national assembly can get a copy and use it not all this noise

rotimileke:

what are you talking about? do you have a copy of the report and have you read it? why throw the baby with the bath water? what's wrong with creating new states or do you think that states will have difficulty paying workers if true federalism were to be in place? what I'm saying is that enough of this circle we've been running. There's no reason why the president should fail. we have more than enough in that report to salvage our nation.

rotimileke:

what are you talking about? do you have a copy of the report and have you read it? why throw the baby with the bath water? what's wrong with creating new states or do you think that states will have difficulty paying workers if true federalism were to be in place? what I'm saying is that enough of this circle we've been running. There's no reason why the president should fail. we have more than enough in that report to salvage our nation.