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The Fear Of Buhari Keeps Lobbyists For Ministerial Posts Away

President Muhammadu Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari

About three weeks after Muhammadu Buhari assumed office as President of Nigerian, the usual lobbyists for the ministerial positions appear to have disappeared.

According to political analysts, potential ministers are even afraid of being appointed ministers by President Buhari, knowing that it would not going to be business as usual, even as the President had sounded a note of warning during his inauguration on May 29 that he was for everybody and was for nobody.

It can be recalled that in the recent past, lobbyists for the ministerial positions would inundate the President immediately after his inauguration, with top political gladiators sending their nominees to the President.

It is noted that top leaders of the new ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), including Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, Atiku Abubakar, Musa Kwankwaso, Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha and others have maintained a reasonable distance from the President in order that they are not embarrassed.

There are indications that the President would not follow any dictation from any of the party leaders in the choice of his team, with the understanding that he would not like his government to fail in delivering the promises he made to Nigerians. He is fully conscious of the fact that the buck stops at his table.

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It is understood that Nigerians, especially those in the opposition, would not take any excuse from Buhari in particular for any kind of failure in the affairs of the government. [myad]

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