Ministerial appointments: No going back on September 30 – Presidency



ABUJA – 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 backdro 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 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.

Vanguard.