President Muhammadu Buhari
The National Association of Christian Journalists has expressed its dissatisfaction with the names on the list of ministerial nominees sent to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari, saying the President is seeking to employ the same hands that dragged the country to its present deplorable state.
The Secretary General, NACJ, Mr. Charles Okhai, in a statement on Friday, said the personalities on the list showed a mere recycling of old hands, and that it was obvious the President made his choice of appointees based on ethnicity, religion and party considerations.
The President had on September 30 forwarded 21 names of ministerial nominees to the National Assembly for screening. The list, which was unveiled on the floor of the Senate by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, had names of former governors and lawmakers, among others.
Reacting to the list, Okhai noted that what the country needed at the moment was a system based on political integrity, leadership by sacrifice, dispassionate fight against corruption and rigorous acceleration of economic growth, but that a look at the list of the nominees was a clear manifestation of the fact that the change the people were clamouring for was not in sight.
The statement partly read, “We make bold to say that the list is nothing less of a bridge of fellows in the corridors of deception and corruption. What we have presently on that list is simply a case of old wine in new bottles.”
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