APC To Approve Buhari’s Ministerial List, Read How Members of Сabinet Will Emerge

The chieftains of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) will ratify the list of people
to be nominated into the Federal Executive
Council before presentation to the National
Assembly.
The leadership of the party were seeking to
restore the APC power which some
supposed was lost during the 16 years
under the ruling of the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP).
A significant northern leader of the APC,
who wanted not to be named because of
the sensitivity of the issue, said the APC
was working to avoid the difficulties which
led to the downfall of the PDP.
The politician said: “We are looking at a
situation where the party will direct the affairs
of government in line with our manifesto.
Recall that this was largely the case during
the second republic.
“ But since 1999, what we have seen is the
rise of individuals whose personal interests
took precedence over the general interest of
the party and the people.
“ The APC cannot afford to let this happen
because we have a social contract with the
Nigerian people who voted for the party based
on the promise to bring about change in the
polity.”
He added that under the APC government,
there is no way the First Lady would have
the freedom to interfere in the party affairs
to the level of dictating who got nominated
and who did not.
The politician said: “This time around, the
party will make an input into how its elected
public office holders conduct the business of
delivering on promises made, because we, as
a party, will share in their success and will
also share in the blame, should they fail.”
Ogbonnaya Onu, a leading member of the
APC and former governor of old Abia state,
has recently told journalists that as a
party, the APC would be guided by the
constitution.
While answering a question as to how
members of the cabinet would emerge, Onu
said the APC was a party which was
determined to do things differently to
enable Nigerians to get value from
administration.
Onu said: “ In forming government, you have
to make consultations with the party. We are a
party of change, we are a party that is looking
forward to building a Nigeria that many of the
problems we have today will be solved, and
we can’t do things the way they were done
before; knowing that the way they were done
before didn’t give the results that were
desired.”
The information emerged recently that
the former president Olusegun Obasanjo
and the national leader of the APC Bola
Tinubu disagreed over the candidature for
the governor of the Central Bank of
Nigeria.
According to the agreement with the
president-elect, General Muhammadu
Buhari, the former Lagos governor will
name nine ministers.the