President-Elect,
General Muhammadu Buhari has asked the governors to steer clear of his
ministerial list.
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.
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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