The Presidency, has reacted to the controversy trending nationwide that President Muhammadu Buhari appointed three dead people as cabinet members.
Post-Nigeria recalls that Senator Francis Okpozo, who died in December 2016, was appointed as the new Chairman of the Nigerian Press Council.
Also, Reverend Christopher Utov, who died in March 2017, is on the Board of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, and Chief Donald Ugbaja, who died last month, is on the Board of the Consumer Protection Council.
While speaking, Presidential Spokesman, Garba Shehu, said: “The list has a history”, which explains the controversy around it.
“In 2015, Mr. President requested all State chapters of the party to submit names of 50 party members for Board appointments”, Shehu said.
He added that the names were compiled by the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and forwarded to the then Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal.
“However, a complaint arose from some Governors, who felt they were not carried along in the process. To answer this, the President constituted a Committee under the Vice President, to review and reflect the interest of the Governors.”
Shehu however, said the action was delayed on the report of the Committee headed by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, as President Muhammadu Buhari took ill.
“The President’s trips for medical attention slowed down completion of the process”, he said, until when Mr. Buhari decided to revisit the matter recently.
“The current SGF was only directed to complete that process by releasing the list, which he apparently did without altering it”, Shehu explained.
Shehu admitted that errors were committed, but added that “no human undertaking can be free of mistakes.”
He further stated that the errors identified with the list, were not enough to describe the exercise as scandalous, insisting that “there is no scandal”.
The Spokesperson said all errors in the list would be corrected.
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