Ministers will be useless in Buhari’s government – PDP

The national leadership of the main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, has alleged that ministers will be useless in President Muhammadu Buhari’s government.

The party said the disposition of the President was not to appoint aides, but to run the government as a sole administrator.

It alleged that this was the reason why President Buhari had been shifting the dates when he would appoint members of his cabinet, adding that the President had also tagged ministers as “noise makers.”

The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Chief Olisa Metuh, stated this at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday.

Metuh alleged that because of the President’s disposition, those to be appointed ministers would not be respected by Buhari.

The spokesman for the opposition party said, “The flip-flopped promise of our President to name a cabinet, a deadline which he shifted from two weeks of assumption of office to the end of September, is actually a reluctant pledge and done under great duress.

“From his hesitancy and comments, it is deducible that President Buhari never intended to appoint ministers but rather prefers to run a monocracy and evidently does not value or respect those he would nominate as ministers.

“Otherwise, how can anyone repackage the mindset of the President when he, in an interview with France 24 Television in France, stated categorically that his preference is to rule without a cabinet and denigrated ministers as ‘noise makers,’ and of no importance or value in the running of an administration?

“Given this worrisome outlook, it is obvious that the Presidency would not attach any value or importance to the ministers under the new sheriff.”

-Punch