President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said not all
the 36 nominees would be ministers as some of
them would only sit in the cabinet in order to meet
the constitutional provision of a cabinet having 36…
He also revealed there is no money to pay all the
ministers because Nigeria is broke,,
Buhari made his stance known interview he granted
the Nigerian Television Authority and Channels
TV shortly before he left India..
Buhari said,
“There was no reduction (of ministers) to 36.
What the constitution says, and we cannot work
outside the constitution, is that there must be a
cabinet representative from each state.Yes, there
used to be 42 ministers, I think we will be lucky
if we can have half of that now because we
cannot afford it.Others may not be substantive
ministers but they will sit in the cabinet because
that is what the constitution says and we cannot
operate outside the constitution.”
When asked whether he will reduce the number of
ministers, Buhari said,
“Of course! Unless you can volunteer to be
paying them (ministers).”
On the criteria used in compiling his ministerial
nominees, the President explained
“I have just talked about Nigerians, especially the
elite, sitting and reflecting on serious national
issues.“How many times did I attempt to be the
President of Nigeria? How many times did I end
up in the Supreme Court? Does is it mean every
time, I don’t know people in this country?I know
people who we were going together but fell by
the wayside because it was too tough. You know
I contested in 2003, 2007, 2011. I think Nigerians
should stop taking things for granted as far as
we are concerned,” he said.
When the President was asked to react to the claim
that his administration is slow in the development
of infrastructure, Buhari said
“Where is the money? You must have known that
the Federal Government had to help 27 of the 36
states to pay salaries.
“Nigeria cannot pay salaries. The Federal
Government itself had to summon the governor of
the Central Bank to see how it would pay salaries
not to talk of the agreements we signed with
foreign countries, counterpart funding and so on.
“This country was materially vandalised and
mor*lly so and you are in a position to know
even more than myself unless you are testing my
knowledge whether I know it or not.”
When asked to be categorical on whether the
country is broke, Buhari replied,
“Of course, Nigeria is broke.”
Saturday, 31 October 2015
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