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NYSC: Buhari expecting communications minister’s resignation – Sources

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President Muhammadu Buhari is expecting the resignation of the Minister of Communications, Alhaji Adebayo Shittu, over his failure to participate in the mandatory one-year National Youth Service Corps scheme, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.

The minister had failed to participate in the scheme after his graduation from the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), Osun State.

He had in an interview said he believed having been elected a lawmaker shortly after his graduation; he needed not to participate in the national service because his membership of the state assembly was itself a “service.”

But the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress had recently disqualified him from contesting for the party’s governorship ticket in Oyo State based on the issue.

Meanwhile, top sources in the government told The PUNCH correspondent on Friday that President Muhammadu Buhari had also asked the embattled minister to do the “needful.”

The PUNCH, October 13, 2018

 

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