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Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by holyteeboy(m): 9:59pm On Jun 15, 2015
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday attributed the delay in his appointment of ministers to the late submission of the transition committee’s report on the previous administration to him.
Mr. Buhari made this known while speaking to journalists at the Summit of the African Union in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The President said he was being careful in order not to make mistakes in appointing individuals especially to key positions such as in the finance and petroleum ministries.
“I don’t know why people are so anxious about ministers. But eventually we will have (them).
“But the main reason is that I have an interim committee which I agreed with former President Jonathan that the ministers of the outgoing government should hand over their notes or their documents to this interim committee so that a position can be prepared for the new government to start from with clear records from ministers.
“But the ministers knew that they were going but the technocrats, the permanent secretaries and directors and so on, they know they would remain.
“If anything goes wrong they would be invited to explain, but unfortunately the outgoing government did not cooperate.
“So, what the committee did was to divide itself into about five sub-committees and get a resource person that was willing to come and bring the document, and so they prepared and I got the report I think three days ago.
“I was waiting for this report because I would like to know what position in the government especially in terms of finance and petroleum industry. So, I am not in a hurry to get ministers.
“I want to get ministers after at least I have seen the report because I don’t have to appoint a minister today and sack him the next week because this report would give me what actually happened in terms of security, economy of the country.
“And since I have to have ministers from politicians and technocrats, I wouldn’t (like to) make the mistake of getting somebody, who has been involved on account of accountability”.
Mr. Buhari added that he, Mr. Jonathan and former Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, had agreed to letting the former ministers hand over their notes to the interim committee he had formed.
He said that the planned examination of the handover notes had to be suspended when the outgoing ruling party accused his then incoming administration of forming a parallel government.
Mr. Buhari said he actually wanted to get a platform from the former ministers on which to start from following the problem of accountability in the administration.
The President, who recalled that during his time as minister of petroleum during the Olusegun Obasanjo military regime, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation had only three accounts, said that during the immediate past administration, the NNPC and the ministry of finance did not know how many accounts they had.
He described the development as improper.
He also said that the emergence of Bukola Saraki as Senate President divided the All Progressives Congress in spite of the moves by the party to avert a crisis.
He said the onus was on the National Assembly to resolve the issue as it had its own criteria for choosing its officers, which was why he did not want to interfere in the exercise.

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Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by Betanwa(m): 10:01pm On Jun 15, 2015
Story for the gods

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Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by BabaO2: 10:09pm On Jun 15, 2015
Why praising Jonathan then if he was a deliberate clog to the wheel of progress of Nigeria. Buhari, it doesn't add up again.
Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by MuguliciousMUGU: 10:11pm On Jun 15, 2015
He wants president mitchell of west germany to approve the ministers list before he can submit it to the notorious agberos NASS sorry i mean the national assemble NASS.

Atiku for EFCC chairman
shekau for minister of finance
tinubu for sport minister
obasanjo as the secretary general of the federation.

And so on...

I have seen the list
Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by DickDastardly(m): 10:15pm On Jun 15, 2015
Okwu na eso Akuko
Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by kodded(m): 10:34pm On Jun 15, 2015
You had two months undecided ...








...Smh
Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by sammyj: 10:40pm On Jun 15, 2015
Sir slow and steady wins the race!!!!
Re: Why I Have Not Appointed Ministers Yet – Buhari by tboneybone(m): 6:17am On Jun 16, 2015
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