Hmm, Buhari disappoints APC govs on appointments, salary bailout

President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari may have disappointed the APC governors by rejecting their plans to submit a list of nominees for ministerial appointment to him, and not being in favour of bailing them out to pay workers’ salaries.

Reports by the Nigerian Tribune say the APC governors, led by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, had, last Tuesday, visited Buhari in Abuja to pledge loyalty and make some demands. At the meeting, some requests were placed on the table openly, while the request to drop the list of possible ministers came up for discussion behind the closed door.

Sources close to the meeting between the governors and Buhari say that the state chief executives came out of the visit with heavy minds.

Planning to maintain the tradition of the PDP where the state governors as party leaders in the states are requested to submit list of possible ministers and Ambassadorial appointees to the president, the governors dropped the request on Buhari.

But it was learnt that the General rejected the proposal and declared that the Constitution does not mandate him to take a list of ministerial nominees from them.

The president-elect was also said to have rejected the call for a bailout for the states that have been unable to pay salaries, with a source revealing that the General flatly rejected the proposal, saying the he was aware the Federal Government was not owing the states their allocations.

The source quoted Buhari as saying that “I do not think we can discuss that issue of Ministerial list. The Constitution clearly does not mandate me to take a list from the governors. To me, the governors should concentrate on getting good hands to help them in discharging their duties in the states.”

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