Creating a government in Abuja
This report was published in Vanguard (Lagos). It offers a glimpse of the difficulties of forming a cabinet for the president elect.Amid Anxiety Over New Cabinet
"...sources spoke [last] weekend on how the in-coming federal ministers will emerge...
"The sources... told Sunday Vanguard that the party leadership would concede to Yar'Adua the right to play a major role in the selection of the ministers to work with him.
"A meeting of the PDP leadership to discuss the modalities for the nomination of people for ministerial appointments into the Yar'Adua cabinet holds this week in Abuja...
"The meeting was scheduled to have been held last Tuesday but for the on-going tour of African countries by the president-elect...
"Another important person who ought to attend the meeting is Chief Ahmadu Ali, the PDP national chairman, who, reportedly was away to the United Kingdom...
"PDP sources... acknowledged that as the outgoing president and somebody who has been in office and knows the challenges therein, Obasanjo will have input in the formation of the cabinet...
"During Obasanjo's first term, the governors elected on the platform of the PDP played a major role in whom got nominated as ministers from their states in line with the quota of one minister from each state...
"'The constitution of the Yar'Adua cabinet will be a joint work with all the important segments of the Nigerian society because the president-elect will end up not being the PDP president but the president of the entire country. Alhaji Yar'Adua has made this clear', one of the sources told Sunday Vanguard..."
Labels: leadership, Nigeria, politics
posted by Ken Wedding @ 5:20 AM
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