Buhari Set To Appoint Non-APC Members As Ministers

Some Nigerians who are not card carrying members of the All Progressives Congress may find their way into the cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The disclosure was made by the National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, who also said he was not interested in the office of the secretary to Government of Federation (SGF) as being rumoured in certain media reports.

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According to Vanguard, Oyegun said Buhari’s government and the APC are more concerned with gathering technocrats and other competent persons who would key in to the vision and objectives of the present administration.

Oyegun, who spoke to Journalists in Abuja, affirmed that the political background of such persons does not matter as long as he/she was capable of delivering and serving the Nigerian people. He also explained why the list of ministers were yet to be made public by the Buhari government.

He said: “There is absolutely no dispute between the party and the president. We agreed that we shall use all manner of people: politicians, technocrats, all manner of people even if not politicians, who can deliver and who subscribe passionately to the agenda of the president to move this country forward, irrespective of where the people come from; irrespective of whether the person is a card-carrying members of the party.

“What is important is the qualification of the person and the ability of the person to deliver on the ideas of Mr. President. What we are interested is in the ability of the people to bring up the ideas that will help Mr. President achieve the set objectives and the ability to deliver on what the President wants.

“Secondly, this is an executive function and the President has the right to consult as widely as possible. This means he might pick people within the party; people outside the party. It is a prerogative the President should exercise and we cannot question that. We are quite happy about the way he is proceeding,”  he concluded.

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Meanwhile, one of the party’s national working committee member, Timi Frank, has called for the resignation of Oyegun.

While speaking in Abuja yesterday, June 14, Frank blamed the chairman and some members of the APC’s NWC for the crisis that resulted from the election of leaders of the National Assembly.

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