A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the spokesman of the party in the South-east, Osita Okechukwu, has said that Nigerians shouldn’t access President Muhammadu Buhari with less than 30 appointments.
He added that Igbos will be undoubtedly carried along as the President starts making more appointments.
While speaking with journalists at the APC National Secretariat, Okechukwu said “My message for my people is that in next the one or two years they will have nothing to complain because the federal government of Nigeria is a big elephant. He has more than five hundred appointments to be made and the juicy ones are also there, and even the sensitive ones are also there. We cannot miss out.
“My people from the South-east are complaining over the appointments made so far, yes and valid argument. But the arguments could be assessed on two grounds. One, President Muhammadu Buhari has 48 months mandate, he has just completed one or two months, which falls bellow five percent of the mandate he was given.
“On the other hand, he has over five hundred appointments to be made no matter how delay, to be made between now and December or by this time next year.
“I personally feel it is very much on the side of impatient to start assessing the President with less than 30 appointments. No matter how sensitive because there are other crucial appointments that are still waiting. I think what we could do on the charitable side for President Muhammadu Buhari is to give sometimes to have a good profile ranking of number of appointments. It is too early to criticise him now.”
On the appointments of service chiefs, he said “My message for my people is that in next the one or two years they will have nothing to complain because the federal government of Nigeria is a big elephant. He has more than five hundred appointments to be made and the juicy ones are also there, and even the sensitive ones are also there. We cannot miss out.
“My people from the South-east are complaining over the appointments made so far, yes and valid argument. But the arguments could be assessed on two grounds. One, President Muhammadu Buhari has 48 months mandate, he has just completed one or two months, which falls bellow five percent of the mandate he was given.
“On the other hand, he has over five hundred appointments to be made no matter how delay, to be made between now and December or by this time next year.
“I personally feel it is very much on the side of impatient to start assessing the President with less than 30 appointments. No matter how sensitive because there are other crucial appointments that are still waiting. I think what we could do on the charitable side for President Muhammadu Buhari is to give sometimes to have a good profile ranking of number of appointments. It is too early to criticise him now.”